Pre-K

Information Fluency Skills for Pre-K
NYS Common Core Foundation for Pre-K

Information skills
Finding and borrowing library books

• Following directions
• Taking turns
• Standing in line without pushing and holding books without dropping them or bumping others
• Find books about their interests by asking the librarian and sharing their interests
• Books have a special home in the library (all of Eric Carle's books are under "C", etc.)

ELA integration
Word work

• Read signs in the library
• Enjoy rhyming words in nursery rhymes, songs, and poems
• Acting out words
• ABC books

Comprehension

• Activating prior knowledge before read alouds: What do you know about...?
• Study the illustration
• Using prediction
• Picture walks to identify the characters or setting or plot in the story
• Book-in-hand experiences of all reading own copy of the book and seeing it as a series of illustrations (When the sun comes up, Goodnight Moon)

Listening and speaking

• Listening to an imaginative text and participating in discussions, avoiding interruptions, attending for an ever-growing amount of time
• Listening for differences in a fingerplay
• Reciting with assisstance fingerplays, nursery rhymes, songs and short poems
• Role playing characters in stories and nursery rhymes

Storytelling (with props)

• Three Little Pigs, Rumpelstiltskin, Rapunzel

Inquiry: Science, Math, Social Studies

• Sharing what they know
• Asking questions about topics or hands-on objects like rocks and shells
• Asking and sharing what they love and connecting that to finding books
• 123 books

Arts integration

Self-portraits on tiles


Collages based on Windblown by Edouard Manceau