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Early Literacy Aside:  I am going to read our next book, Way Down Deep in the Deep Blue Sea by Jan Peck. Then you can tell it with me on the flannel board. Read Way Down Deep in the Deep Blue Sea. Repeat some of the rhymes to help them remember. Flannel Board: As you put up pieces on the flannel board have the children retell the story. Submitted by Stem Saunders, SteeleCreek Library, Public Library of Charlotte and Mechlenburg County (NC)

Flannel Board:  Pass out flannel board pieces of fam animals. Play or sing F“Old Macdonald Had a Farme” . When a child hears the animal he/she is holding, that child comes up to place the animal piece on the flannel board. Aside:  Having your children hear and make the sounds of the animals is one enjoyable way to help them develop phonological awareness, to eventually be able to hear the smaller sounds in words. Take-Home Activity: Hand out shapes of animals for families to take home. Aside:  Parents, you can use these animal shapes to make animal sounds with your children and home and sing the song with them to practice the skill of phonological awareness. Submitted by Helen Patzer, Dayton (OH) Metro Library, Northtown-Shiloh Branch.

Re-tell the story using flannel pieces with the children telling the story as you put the pieces on the board.  As the whole story has four words the children learn it quickly.  This book can also be used to demonstrate narrative skills. Submitted by Leslee Farish Kuykendal, Chicago Public Library

Read the book. Aside: It is really important for children to be able to tell and re-tell stories or ideas in chronological order. We are going to use this flannel board (Rain flannel board) to let the children re-tell the story we just read. Plus, they will see how each item affects the next one. This activity will help them develop their narrative skills. Flannel Board: Place pieces on the flannel board as the children retell the story. You can use some of the pieces from the flannel board pattern as a handout so that the children can retell the story at home. Submitted by Jaime Duval and Whitney Whitaker, Radford (VA) Public Library

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