Literacy Group Activity

In the past month we have been working hard on developing early literacy skills with our students. Our students are big fans of Brown Bear, Brown Bear Who Do You See? and similar books. We created picture symbol boards with all the characters from Brown Bear for several of our students. Each student has a board, one member of the staff read the story and the group is asked who they see on the page. The students then pull off and hand the picture symbol of the appropriate character to the staff member reading the story. We are using similar pictures to the ones in the book. We used plastic Dollarama clipboards as the base, these allow us to have four "pages" in order to add the symbols for different stories. We recently added the Boardmaker pictures for the animals found in Polar Bear, Polar Bear Who Do You Hear?.