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 21: Setting Up a Writing Area (continued)
Provide Literacy-Related Items:
- Stamps and stamp pads
- Alphabet manipulative's (for example, letter bricks and a base plate, alphabet sponges)
- Book-binding materials (stapler, hole punch, laces)
- Pencil erasers
- Scissors
- Stickers
- Glue and paste
- Typewriter
- Computer and developmentally appropriate programs
- Clipboards
- Alphabet chart (hung at children's eye level)
- Envelopes
- Receipt books
- Junk mail
- Calendars (current and old) and old catalogs and magazines
- Coupons and greeting cards
- File folders and portable file boxes
- Mail bag (a tote bag with long handles so it can be hung over a shoulder)
- Mail box (cardboard box with a slit in the top)
- Hang a clothesline with clothespins to display children's writing and drawings
- Provide tools and surfaces, hung at children's height, for group writing such as:
—A blackboard hung at children's height, with white and colored chalk and erasers
—A large piece of heavy-weight paper posted at children's height, with writing tools tied on long strings and attached to the wall with tape
—An erasable board with special markers and erasers
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