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Family Literacy Bag: Animals
Go on an "animal" reading adventure! Teachers can support reading together at home with Reading Rockets family literacy bags — designed to encourage hands-on fun and learning centered around paired fiction and nonfiction books.
(Level: Kindergarten)
Explore animals!
The featured books for the Animals Literacy Bag are Blueberries for Sal, by Robert McCloskey, and A Bed for the Winter, by Karen Wallace. Blueberries for Sal is a classic children's story about a human child and her mother and a bear child and his mother looking for berries. A Bed for the Winter is a DK Reader that explores homes different animals find for winter.
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The featured books were chosen for their quality and availability in most school and public libraries. However, if you would like to purchase the books, here are the links:
Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey
A Bed for the Winter by Karen Wallace
What's in the literacy bag?
- Parent information sheet with an introductory note that teachers can personalize, instructions about how to use the packet, and tips for sharing fiction and nonfiction books with children
- Two books: one fiction and one nonfiction, selected by Reading Rockets for high quality and wide availability in school libraries
- Creativity Activity: a hands-on craft project
- Imagination Activity: encourages imaginative play, writing, or drawing
- Get Real Activity: focuses on real-world experiences for parent and child
- Bookmark: lists the featured titles and alternative titles
- Parent survey
While designed as a school-to-home project, the Reading Rockets Literacy Bags are also great for summer programs, after-school programs, and home-schoolers.
Interested in more reading adventures?
Browse our full library of Family Literacy Bags. And for additional information about Family Literacy Bags, you might want to read this article.
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