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?.



Environmental Signs

In the past my students have worked on learning to identify common environmental signs, such as Stop signs, Walk signs, Danger Signs. I created this activity after we took a community walk to take pictures of the signs in our community. Each page contains two pictures. When the correct picture is selected the students are reinforced with an audio clip that says  "Good Job", when they select the wrong picture they hear "No, try again".

Here is the Google Docs link for Community Signs