These activities can be either written or told orally. Provide opportunities for children to engage in choral reading, especially when reading repetitive or patterned books. Develop dramatic play activities using Caldecott books to encourage oral language development, creative thinking, and imaginative play. Encourage the children to retell the story. Photocopy the characters in a story, cut them out, and paste them onto craft sticks to make puppets.
Children can use the puppets to retell the story, extend the story, or make up their own story.
Invite children to act out the story. Encourage children to express personal feelings about books to develop self-esteem and creative thinking. Provide children with the opportunity to make inferences about a story. Encourage children to imagine other directions a story might have taken. Build math and literacy skills by reviewing the children sequence of a story, or sorting, categorizing, or graphing elements of one or more stories.