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Early Literacy Site:
http://www.earlyliterature.ecsd.net
This site gives literacy background and teacher resources
(over 2,000 poems, etc. grouped by topic).
Ideas for the Classroom
1.
Copying poems from the Internet for binders or “Read Around
the Room” into a Word Document.
2.
Reformatting into new size or type of font.
3.
Decorating poems, centers, letters, etc. with clip art or
photos from the Internet.
4.
Designing variations of pattern books.
1.
Copying poems: Open a New Word Document, then go on to the
Internet Early Literacy Site (see above) select a topic and browse
until you find a poem you can use for your class. Using left mouse
button, highlight the poem. Use right mouse button and select
“Copy”. Looking at bottom bars of computer, click on “word
document” to bring it to the front on the screen. Right mouse
button, select “paste”. If you are having difficulty with the
mouse buttons, you can always copy and paste from the “edit”
headings.
2.
Reformatting text. Highlight the poem. Go to top bars and
select the “center” button. Go to “Format” and select
“Font” – choose a different font and increase sizing until
your poem fills the page. Under
“File” title, go to “Page Properties” and then
“Margins”. You can reduce them all to “.7” and still get
everything in print. This is also where you can change it from
portrait to landscape view.
3.
Decorating work with clip art and photos. Go to
“Insert” on title bar, select “Picture”, then “Clip
Art”. This will show you what you have on this computer. You can
add to your clip art file at home by going to: http://cgl.microsoft.com/clipgallerylive/
Type in a category
(animals… or more specifically… tigers). Click on the download
arrow on images you wish to select for them to go into a temporary
clip art file, which you can then import into your own saved clip
art. For today, select the images you like by clicking
“preview”, then right click “copy” then on your word
document, click “paste”. You
can change the size of your clip art/photo by clicking once on it to
get the image “boxes” or handles around it. Use a corner one,
and with the left mouse button, hold the corner and move the arrow
in/out until it reaches desired size. Clicking on the 4-arrow symbol
means you can drag it to a new location.
Good sources of photo images can be found
in your “search” engines. Always ask for “name photos”, e.g.
tiger photos. You’ll get a list that you’ll have to screen until
you find the pictures that work for you. Here is an example of
a photo site:
http://www.freeyellow.com/members2/reptile-rescue/index.html
Make
a pattern book variation. First select a story pattern and type it
onto a word document. Now you need to find and paste images for each
page of the book. If you think of each page being cut in half, when
it’s in the portrait position, it glues well onto half a
construction paper sheet. For font size you’ll need around
“20” or so. Now search for photos and clip art to paste in above
the text! Save it to “A” drive, and print!
In
The Woods
A
________ lives in the woods.
A
________ lives in the woods.
A
________ lives in the woods.
A
________ lives in the woods.
...
What
else lives in the woods?
Variation
1:
Use
names to fill in the blanks. E.g. animals; dinosaurs; birds; people;
story character.
Variation
2:
Change
the setting to create new story opportunities.
e.g.
A shark lives in the ocean...
A lion lives in the Serengeti...
A bass lives in the lake...
A salmon lives in the river...
A walrus lives in the Arctic...
Variation
3:
Select
one animal and complete all the possible habitats where it may be
found.
E.g.
A rabbit lives in the woods.
A rabbit lives in a hutch.
A rabbit lives in the grasslands.
A rabbit lives in Easterland.
Have
You Seen My Cat?
by Eric Carle
Basic
Pattern:
Have
you seen my cat? This is not my cat.
(repeated)
Have
you seen my cat? This is my cat!
Variations:
Have
you seen our or woolly mammoth? or caterpillar? or teacher? or car?
Brown
Bear, Brown Bear
Sunflower,
sunflower, what do you see? ... Yellow sun, garden, scarecrow, black
crow, spotted bug, green aphid, red leaf, caterpillar, winter.
Coyote,
coyote, what do you see? ... little mouse, snake, butterfly
Little
bird, little bird, what do you see? … wriggly worm, crawling bug,
bird bath
Yellow
chick, yellow chick, what do you see? pieces of egg, water dish,
food pellets
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