This resource was created as part of the CESA #1 EL OER Project to help elementary newcomer EL students learn vocabulary about places around school. Using the given template, teachers and students can create a personalized book showcasing different rooms/parts of the school and the teachers/ school staff that they interact with throughout the day. After creating the book, emergent readers will have a pattern book containing their name and picture clues to help them practice reading skills.

This is a listing of books teachers can use as mentor texts to support children becoming authors and illustrators

This video segment from Between the Lions features an animated limerick, which exemplifies the kind of wordplay that prepares children for early reading and spelling.

This video segment from Between the Lions shows the practice of sounding out the word rocket part by part, blending sounds together to form a word.

This video segment from Between the Lions features the Knights of Blending Fields demonstrating an important element of phonemic awareness: blending word parts to make a word.

This video segment from Between the Lions uses an animated road sign to illustrate and spell familiar words that begin with the /k/ sound that the letter c makes.

This video segment from Between the Lions uses a cheer--Hop 'Til You Drop--to build letter knowledge, and to demonstrate how movement and letter chanting can illustrate the words being spelled.

Early Literacy Specialists and Educators may use this power point individually or with staff for development of literacy practices K -2. This tool was designed by the Early Literacy Wisconsin State Reading Association Leadership team. This tool has been used with with teams wishing to deepen their early literacy understanding by reading, discussing the book. The use of the power point will enable educators to strengthen individual and team practices. This tool enables educators to dynamically dig into I am Reading by Kathy Collins and Matt Glover generating close reading and conversation of educators.

This video segment from Between the Lions features Aesop's fable, The Lion and the Mouse, and illustrates how children can learn by talking about a book as it is read aloud.

This video segment from Between the Lions features a catchy song that celebrates an important function of literacy: access to information. It also shows the wide world of print, and all of the knowledge that can be gained from it.

This video segment from Between the Lions features an African tale full of surprises and new words. Master storyteller Karen Kandel models the power of storytelling, the mesmerizing effects of language, and how stories can help build vocabulary and background knowledge.

This resource from the Virginia Department of Education includes brief activities to support phonological awareness. Activities to support student learning in the areas of listening, rhyme, word awareness, syllable awareness, and phonemic awareness (including phoneme blending, deletion, and substitution) are all included.

In this video segment from Between the Lions, Sloppy Pop's song Read the Signs spotlights the letters and words we see on signs every day, encouraging children to be aware of print in their environment.

In this video segment from Between the Lions, country music stars Patty Loveless and Buddy Jewel perform a kid-friendly song that spotlights some of the important reasons to read.

This video segment from Between the Lions features a motivating, kid-friendly song that celebrates the reasons to write in everyday life.

This video segment from Between the Lions presents an animated rhyming song to help tune the listener's ear to language sounds, and it incorporates strategies for building vocabulary and fluency in reading.

This video segment from Between the Lions features a classic tongue twister - a type of wordplay that helps children tune their ears to language and the sounds within words.

This video segment from Between the Lions uses a classic children's book to illustrate reading aloud, one of the most important practices in developing children's literacy skills.

The Wisconsin State Reading Association's Families and Literacy Committee, comprised of educators from throughout Wisconsin, creates resources to honor the family's important role in the literacy development of young children.
WSRA offers a monthly literacy calendar with activities for families.
In addition, WSRA has videos that families can view to better understand how to read to and with young children and how to talk with young children.

This video segment from Between the Lions uses a fun hip-hop song about names to highlight the /uh/ sound that the letter u makes and to boost phonemic awareness--an understanding of the sounds within words.