Family Literacy Backpacks
Family fun and learning are promoted through take-home, theme-focused backpacks. Ideas for materials and activities which can be included in these great backpacks are provided.
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English/Language Arts Academic Standards
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- Reading Comprehension
- Reading Vocabulary
Family Activities
- The Great Outdoors Video Activities
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- Go camping in your living room.
- Roast marshmallows over the stove.
- Make shadow puppets with flashlight.
- Create your own outdoor sound tape.
- Tell stories about past vacations.
- Compare and contrast the two families and decide which one you are.
- Secret of the Andes Book Activities
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- Find the Andes Mountains on the map. Visit this website to see the Andes Mountains:
- Get out your photo album and talk about pictures of the past.
- Write or tell about Cusi's trip through the eyes of Misti. Take a funny picture of your family and put it in your photo album.
- Around the World in Eighty Days Book Activities
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- Find Columbia City on a map
- If you had 80 days to plan a trip, where would you go? What supplies would you take?
- Go to Travelocity to map your trip.Invent your own mode of transportation and make a drawing of it.
- Everybody Needs a Rock Book Activities
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- Paint your Pet Rock and use it as a paper weight
- Find rocks and identify them. Use these site to help you discover more about rocks:
- Neill's Geology for Kids
- RockHounds
- Play Rock Paper/Scissors and see who wins.
- Weigh rocks on bathroom scale and graph your results on a spreadsheet.
Books to Include |
- Around the World in Eighty Days
- by Jules Verne - ages: adult
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- Everybody Needs a Rock
- by Byrd Baylor - all ages
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- Secret of the Andes
- by Ann Nolan Clark - intermediate readers
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Web Sites for Fun |
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List of Additional Resources |
| Videos |
- The Great Outdoors
- rated pg - with Dan Aykroyd
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| Computer Software |
- Encyclopedia of Nature
- by Eyewitness - all ages
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| Pictures |
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Resource Link
If you are thinking of creating a literacy backpack for outdoors,
here are suggested resources you can include in your backpack: outdoors resources.
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