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Reading With Building Blocks
It's always fun to find and use new tools to get children reading. Here are some tips for using characters, content, and components from Building Blocks to help introduce and reinforce basic reading and pre-reading skills.
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Play Day in the Park (Easy Reader for 3- to 4-year-olds) |
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This Easy Reader features the familiar Building Blocks characters in a rhyming book that encourages children to play outside and exercise and discover the world around them. Use this oversized, colorful book in the classroom or at home to engage young children in reading and counting, problem-solving, and making healthy decisions.
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Look What I Can Do! (Easy Reader for 5- to 6-year-olds) |
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This Easy Reader features the familiar Building Blocks characters and encourages children to play outside and exercise, eat healthy meals and snacks, and discover the world around them. Activities throughout the book let children show all of the things that they can do, too! Use this oversized, colorful book in the classroom or at home to engage young children in reading, problem-solving, and making healthy decisions.
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Purpose
To introduce students to basic reading concepts through Building Blocks.
Materials
Preparation
Select the Building Blocks tool you're planning to use and print out and distribute the materials to students.
Teaching Note: Building Blocks materials are copyright free—you may copy and use all of the materials in the ways that work best for you and your classroom.
Procedure
Choose one of these sample ideas and adapt it to fit your students' needs.
Letter Sounds
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Use the Building Blocks ABC Coloring Book (PDF) to have students listen for and identify alliteration in "ants on Ali's apple" or Sandy Squirrel's "beautiful, bouncing braids." |
Context Clues
Bright, simple graphics on the Character Cardsand Know Kit Cards help children read the questions and answers for each Building Blocks character.
Word Recognition
Each Building Blocks character is named after the animal he or she resembles. Use the Character Cardsand Know Kit Cards to have children look for the bushy tail or long ears to identify Sandy Squirrel or Ali Rabbit.
Rhyming
The simple words and rhyming schemes used in Building Blocks songs help students use rhyme to identify and create new words. Print out the lyrics for each song and have students read along as they sing. Or, have them highlight the rhyming words and find new ones that can also be used within the song’s meter.
Reading Games
Reading games are everywhere on the Web. Have students try these:
Resources:
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