Students engage in a rich study of vocabulary words from the song "America the Beautiful," using music and art.

Students bring the print-rich environment of the community into the classroom through the use of environmental print, enabling emergent readers to delight in the realization that they are indeed readers.

Through interactive writing, students work together and then independently to create invitation letters for a group of their peers and their families.

Students move from modeled to independent comprehension of fiction stories by using texts by Jan Brett and interactive tools that demonstrate their comprehension.