Focus:
The Classic Tales domain builds students’ knowledge of narrative language and the conventions of fictional storytelling.
Number of Lessons: 20 (interspersed across the school year)
Instruction Time:
50 minutes (This is per tale and can be divided across two instructional days.)
Additional Search Terms:
Three Little Pigs • Why Flies Buzz • Thumbelina • Little Red Hen • Gingerbread Man
This comprehensive Teacher Guide specifies learning objectives and provides background information, daily lesson plans, assessments, and other resources for teaching the Skills unit.
Transition Cards reinforce content and skills as students move between activities. Some of these cards may be used across multiple domains. Learning Center Cards provide teachers with suggested questions and prompts in order to facilitate language and promote student-to-student interaction.
Big Books are used to engage students in the reading process. For example, during story demonstration lessons, teachers use Big Books to model important concepts of print, including text directionality, reading from left to right, attentiveness to punctuation, and highlighting the different parts of a book.
Each Flip Book contains a sequenced collection of images that accompany the Listening & Learning read-alouds. The engaging visuals reinforce students’ understanding of concepts and promote engagement with the text.
Image Cards are used to reinforce and deepen students’ understanding of the information covered in the domain. They are primarily used during Extension Activities. Common exercises include sorting, retelling, and sequencing.