Then have them draw a short line at the top of each page in their books, and draw a circle or square at the bottom of each page. Practice Use the strategies that follow to provide opportunities for children to practice the skill taught. Model procedures and offer guidance as needed. Monitor the activities to make sure procedures have been understood. Have children create a wordless picture book.
Children can work individually or with partners to create a series of pictures that tell a story.
They might choose a familiar story or make up a story of their own. Help children arrange their pictures in story order and bind them together to create a book. Then cut the oaktag sentence strip into words and spaces. Mix up the pieces and invite children to recreate the oaktag sentence by arranging the pieces to match the sentence as it appears on the chart paper. Once children understand the concept of words, this same sort of puzzle can be created with the letters of a word.