Planning

 
Focus on Thoughtful Questions
Prediction Questions:
    What questions will you ask to help the children make predictions about the book?
        · From the title:

        · After looking at the pictures:

        · Half way though reading the book:
Oval: Connection Questions: ·What questions will help children think about how their lives connect with this story?·How the new information connects with their lives?
Cloud Callout: ¤ What questions or survey could you take following the story to collect different opinions from the children to write and / or chart the answers?Hexagon: What props could you use to make the story come alive?

 
 

How can you link the story with your interest centers available to children?
    · Housekeeping
    · Blocks
    · Science
    · Sensory table
    · Art
    · Math and manipulatives
    · Outside games
    · Finger Plays / poetry
    · Art
  · AutoShape: Music and songs:

 
What can you do during routines times to link with this story?
    · Meals
    · Rest
     · Transition times
What other stories have similar themes, characters or similar problems to solve?
Are there other books by the same author or illustrator that the children might be interested in?
How can you celebrate/share with parents and other children/teachers
        what the children have learned in this unit?
 
Planning for Literacy
http://www.edvisors.com/Early_Childhood/more2.html
http://www.key-net.net/users/jackson/theme1.htm
http://www.netrox.net/~labush/colrpres.htm
http://www.ecewebguide.com/themes_general.htm
http://www.perpetualpreschool.com/
http://areaguides.com/kidsfelt/Kindergarten.htm
http://prek.dhs.org/kidlink.php
http://www.preschoolexpress.com/teacher_station/default.shtml
http://www.underfives.co.uk/
http://www.preschooleducation.com/
http://www.coreknowledge.org/CKproto2/Preschool/PreKGlance.htm
 

Around stories http://www.hubbardscupboard.org/read_write_sing_lesson_ideas.html
Calendar of special days http://www.readwritethink.org/calendar/index.asp?date=11/1/2003
Language arts themes http://teachers.teach-nology.com/themes/lang_arts/
Learning Styles http://www.ldpride.net/learning_style.html
PBS Teacher Source http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/arts_lit/preschool_speaking.shtm
Phonemic awareness activities http://www.readingrockets.org/article.php?ID=416
Project Approach http://www.ualberta.ca/~schard/examples/projects.htm
Everything Pumpkin http://www.kinderkorner.com/pumpkinpatch.html
Science themes http://teachers.teach-nology.com/themes/science/
        http://www.ccinfoline.8k.com/preschool_science.htm
Story stretchers for older children http://www.kidwriting.homestead.com/TellaStory.html
Variety of themes http://www.abcteach.com/directory/theme_units/

Planning theory
http://www.uwinnipeg.ca/~jameis/New%20Pages/EYR18.html
Project approach http://www.graphic.org/project.html
Chard http://www.project-approach.com/
UNH http://www.unh.edu/csdc/cccnursery.htm
Graphic Organizers http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/index.html
EDC http://www2.edc.org/NCIP/tour/O-Integrate_Cur.html
Home school http://www.homeschoollearning.com/resources_themes.shtml
Reggio Emilia http://www.emtech.net/reggio.htm
        http://www.latelier.org/usefullinks/
Lesson planning  http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonplans/