Building Blocks

For Kindergarten

The Six Building Blocks are:
1.	Desire to Learn to Read & Write Create an environment where all students see themselves becoming independent readers and writers.
2.	Language Concepts Foster the ability to read and write words through the use of morning messages, journal entries, sentence building activities, and environmental print.
3.	Print Concepts Teach print concepts by modeling how to write and participating in shared reading and shared writing experiences.
4.	Phonemic Awareness Develop phonemic awareness, including the concept of rhyme, through activities with poetry, rhyming books, tongue twisters, and playing with language.
5.	Interesting Words Extend the list of real-life words that students find personally relevant, such as favorite restaurant names, favorite cartoon characters, and family members.
6.	Letters & Sounds Encourage letter and sound recognition through activities with alphabet books, beginning and ending sounds, and shared writing of predictable charts.

Four Block Resources- 1^st-5^th

What Is Four Blocks?

The following links provide general information about all of the blocks 

http://www.blocks4reading.com/	http://www.wfu.edu/~cunningh/fourblocks/
http://teachers.net/4blocks/	http://readinglady.com/4blocks2/index.html
http://www.debfourblocks.com/	http://www.cherylsigmon.com/
http://www.omsd.k12.ca.us/lehigh/Lehigh4blocks1.htm	http://www.four-blocks.com/
http://www.evsc.k12.in.us/curriculum/reading/fblocks.htm	http://www.applesandacorns.com/four_blocks_literacy_program.htm
http://edtech.tph.wku.edu/~ppetty/fourblocks.htm

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