Doors to Discovery

Through engaging storybooks, enchanting literacy-learning environments, and authentic discoveries, preschoolers are given the "keys" that will open the door to lifelong literacy. Teacher support throughout the Discovery Guide (TG) fosters built-in professional development and "at-your-fingertips" resources, in order to launch a love of literature!

Features:

• Includes key elements of early literacy - Oral Language Development, Phonological Awareness, Alphabet Knowledge, and Concepts of Print
• Correlated to key national, state, and local guidelines, including: IRA/NAEYC position paper regarding predictors of literary success, High/Scope, and Creative Curriculum
• Successfully implemented in a variety of early learning classrooms, including Head Start, private child care, public schools, and Early Reading First Centers of Excellence
• Shared Literacy features = Each Exploration includes four (4) Big Books that focus on fiction, nonfiction, mathematical concepts, and interactive oral language and vocabulary development.
• Developmentally appropriate activities engage children in differentiated learning centers that support literacy
• Opportunities for parallel and integrated family learning activities that enrich, extend, and teach the curriculum, recognizing parents as the first "teachers" of their children
• Assessment strategies are integrated into the Doors to Discovery program. A separate Assessment booklet accompanies each Exploration, complete with rationale, research, blackline masters and assessment management ideas.
• Literacy Learning Centers – provide cross-curricular instruction; integration of play/imagination of children and teachers

Doors to Discovery includes eight (8) Explorations, sold together or separately:

• New Place, New Faces
• Vroom! Vroom!
• Tabby Tiger's Diner
• Build it Big!
• Healthy Me!
• Discovery Street
• Our Water Wonderland
• Backyard Detectives

Components (per unit):

• 4 Big Books, 4 student books
• 1 Teacher Guide
• Big Scrapbook
• Story Character Props
• Audio CD
• Song & Rhyme Posters
• Activity Cards
• Word Cards
• Exploration At-A-Glance (poster)
• Additional items include Sound, Rhyme, and Letter Time – Alphabet Posters, Alphabet Frieze, Sound, Rhyme, and Letter Time Teacher Notes; and an Assessment Handbook