- bag
- paper
- plastic uppercase letters
- curved
- straight
MA Standards:
Mathematics/Measurement and Data/PK.MD.MA.3: Sort, categorize, and classify objects by more than one attribute.
Head Start Outcomes:
Approaches to Learning/Initiative and Curiosity: An interest in varied topics and activities, desire to learn, creativeness, and independence in learning.
Approaches to Learning/Persistence and Attentiveness: The ability to begin and finish activities with persistence and attention.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Reading and Literature: Develop familiarity with the forms of alphabet letters, awareness of print, and letter forms.
Mathematics/Patterns and Relations: Sort, categorize, or classify objects by more than one attribute.
Letter Sort
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Educator Prep: Place plastic uppercase letters in a bag. Make a chart by drawing a line down the middle of a sheet of paper to divide it in half. Draw a straight line and a curved line at the upper left side of the paper and just a straight line at the upper right side.
Have children take one letter out of the bag. Trace the letters with children, then help them decide where to place it on the chart.
Begin to model the process by pulling a letter out of the bag and saying, Where am I going to place this letter L? The letter L has a straight line here and another one here. It has two straight lines and no curved lines, so I will place it on the side of the paper with only a straight line.
English Language Learners: If children are having trouble understanding what is meant by straight and curved lines, draw examples for them, or guide their fingers as they draw the lines by themselves. Have children trace the drawn lines with their fingers as you have them say the words straight and curved.