How Do You Make A Preschool Literacy Bag?
When children are learning reading readiness skills, practice at home is pretty important. You can make a preschool literacy bag for children to use at home that reinforces these skills. Step 1 Decide on a simple theme for the bag. Some themes to consider are counting, ABC’s, or colors. You want to keep the bags very simple, as you are working with young children. They need to concentrate on one concept at a time. Step 2 Find a good book that matches the bag’s theme. For example, Mouse Paint by Ellen Walsh is a great choice for literacy bags about color. Step 3 Choose puppets, flannel board pieces or stuffed toys that match the book’s characters. For example, in the Mouse Paint bag, you’d want to add white mice, colored mice, a paintbrush, a small water bowl and a stuffed cat. Step 4 Find or make some simple worksheets that reinforce the concept. For the Mouse Paint color literacy bag example, you might want to look for worksheets that match colors with color words or a worksheet that
