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Teacher’s/Leader’s Guide for ® School is cool! The activities below can help reinforce the material in this Know What? ® workbook when used in the classroom. Many are experiential, helping students work together to better understand issues related to starting school and to improve skills needed for success in school and life. You can also use these activities to help students meet select Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts (CCSS.ELA). Correlations to specific standards are listed below each activity. Visit www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy to learn more. Note: This guide also includes several activities intended for parents to use with their child at home. You may copy and distribute these activities. But you must use these activities in conjuction with this Know What? ® workbook, and the copyright notice must be included on the copies. Follow your organization’s policies. Cover—Find the vowels! The “find activity” on the cover gives you the chance to introduce vowels. Children may be interested to learn that every word must have at least one vowel (or “y”). Children can have fun hunting through sentences to see how many vowels they can find. You can even combine a “vowel hunt” with counting practice by having children look through a favorite story to see how many vowels they can find. Supports Reading—Foundational Skills Standards: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.3b CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.1.3b CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.2.3b CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.1.4b CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.2.4b Supports Speaking & Listening Standards: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.K.1b CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.1.1b CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.2.1b Page 2—You are big now! Learning the alphabet comes early in a child’s school career. One effective strategy for learning letters is to have the child trace the shape of the letter while he or she says its name. You can expand this activity by creating materials that will allow children to trace all of the alphabet. Or, create large cut-outs in the shapes of letters that you then place on the ground. Children can walk the shape of the cut-out and say the name of the letter. Or, they can be blindfolded and try to guess the name of the letter—whether it’s by the tracing or walking method. (Don’t let children walk blindfolded without safe assistance.) Supports Reading—Foundational Skills Standards: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.1b,d Page 4—How will you get to school? Many children starting school will need to learn new traffic safety and school bus safety rules. Consider taking children on “field trips” where everyone can practice how to be safe as pedestrians. You may also want to show children a real school bus stop. Have the children watch students getting on and off the bus. Point out the safe behaviors you see. You may want to invite a bus driver to come talk about the rules children must follow on the school bus. Supports Speaking & Listening Standards: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.K.1b CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.1.1b CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.2.1b CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.K.2 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.1.2 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.2.2 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.K.3 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.1.3 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.2.3 Follow your organization’s policies and regulations (for example, those that apply to parental notification and consent) when using these activities. 2014 Edition ©2000 Channing Bete Company, Inc. All rights reserved. (05-14-A) Channing Bete Company, One Community Place, South Deerfield, MA 01373 • 20D-0112 To reorder call (800) 628-7733 or visit www.channing-bete.com and ask for item number PS92672 C O M P A N Y Channin ®