Training Guides for the Head Start Learning Community:
Emerging Literacy: Linking Social Competence to Learning
Module 4

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Setting the Stage for Literacy Explorations

Handout 22: Encouraging Literacy in All Interest Areas

Instructions: Review the following example. Then design a classroom with literacy materials in each interest area and indicate how literacy materials could be used outdoors.

Example:

Area: House Corner

Literacy Materials: Menus Food containers Calendars Magazines Cookbooks Tickets Storybooks Paper or notepads and pencils Cardboard, markers, and tape Books Pad of sales slips

How Children Could Use Them: Read menus in a restaurant Read food packages Write appointments on a calendar Read magazines while waiting for the doctor Read recipes in cookbooks Use tickets to play bus, movie theater, sports event Read bedtime stories to babies Make shopping lists Write and post signs for grocery store Read to dolls or stuffed animals Write food orders, prescriptions, and receipts

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