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From guidance to maintain
nurturing and responsive
caregiving routines, to structure
to implement investigative
learning, to strategies to
include all learners, to formative
assessment observations,
to opportunities for family
engagement and professional
development — see for yourself
how the studies within each
Teaching Guide thoughtfully
bring the components of a
high-quality early childhood
classroom to life.
Mighty Minutes® for Twos
100 new songs, rhymes, games, chants and activities to help
caregivers make every daily routine, transition, and moment
of the day meaningful and engaging.
Sharing With Families
Guidance for Sharing With Twos
27 Highlights Hello
™
What I Like
Playing Ball
Flying High
Encourage families to do the following:
• Add hand and body movements to
animate the song as you sing. Encourage
the children to perform the actions with
you.
• Invite the children to point out familiar
items in the illustrations. Expand on
their observations by adding more
details: “Yes, there is a yellow butterfly
flying by the tree.”
• Act out the story “Flying High” with
their children by using their children’s
names in the story and following the
movements.
• Encourage the children to name
anything they recognize in the
illustrations. Expand on the children’s
observations: “Yes, there is a baby. He is
smiling at his mommy. Do you see any
more babies in the pictures?”
• Replace Mama in the last line of the
story with the child’s name, and offer
him a hug after you read.
• Show the children their family photos,
and ask them to name familiar people.
• After reading, ask, “What do you like
to play with?” and invite the children
to choose items in the room they like.
Encourage the children to name and
talk about the items they choose.
• Emphasize the rhyming word pairs
ball /hall and do /you.
• After reading, invite the children to
experiment with rolling a variety of
balls. Compare the balls as the children
play: “Wow, that is a big beach ball! Is it
easy to roll? What about this little table
tennis ball? How can you roll this one?”
• After reading, invite the children to
join you in the activity on Intentional
Teaching Card P18, “Roll It to Me!”
Find It
• Say, “What do you see in this picture?
Yes, there is a banana. What other foods
do you see?”
• Say, “Let’s look at the picture. There
are one, two, three things to find.”
Encourage the children to name the
objects on the “Find It” page.
• Play a game of “Roll the Ball” with their
children after reading “Playing Ball.”
• Point out pairs of objects in the
illustrations: “I see two blue birds, two
pink shoes, and two blocks. And there
are one, two of us reading the story
together!”
Playing Ball
Flying High
Encourage families to do the following:
• Invite the children to hold a favorite
item as you share the story.
• Add hand and body movements to
animate the song as you sing. Encourage
the children to perform the actions with
you.
• Invite the children to point out familiar
items in the illustrations. Expand on
their observations by adding more
details: “Yes, there is a yellow butterfly
flying by the tree.”
• Act out the story “Flying High” with
their children by using their children’s
names in the story and following the
movements.
• Encourage the children to name
anything they recognize in the
illustrations. Expand on the children’s
observations: “Yes, there is a baby. He is
smilingCards
at his™ mommy. Do you see any
The Creative Curriculum® for Infants, Toddlers & Twos Book Conversation
more babies in the pictures?”
• Replace Mama in the last line of the
story with the child’s name, and offer
him a hug after you read.
Sharing With Families
Guidance for Sharing With Twos
• Invite the children to hold a favorite
item as you share the story.
What I Like
• Show the children their family photos,
and ask them to name familiar people.
• Talk with their children about things
they like, such as special people or toys
after reading, “What I Like.” If possible,
invite families to bring in pictures of the
special people in their children’s lives to
share when reading the poem.
• After reading, ask, “What do you like
to play with?” and invite the children
to choose items in the room they like.
Encourage the children to name and
talk about the items they choose.
• Emphasize the rhyming word pairs
ball /hall and do /you.
• After reading, invite the children to
experiment with rolling a variety of
balls. Compare the balls as the children
play: “Wow, that is a big beach ball! Is it
easy to roll? What about this little table
tennis ball? How can you roll this one?”
• After reading, invite the children to
join you in the activity on Intentional
Teaching Card P18, “Roll It to Me!”
Find It
• Say, “What do you see in this picture?
Yes, there is a banana. What other foods
do you see?”
• Say, “Let’s look at the picture. There
are one, two, three things to find.”
Encourage the children to name the
objects on the “Find It” page.
• Emphasize key words in the story such
as up, down, whee, and again, and
encourage the children to repeat these
words.
• Emphasize key words in the story such
as up, down, whee, and again, and
encourage the children to repeat these
words.
My Puppy
• Offer the children a small stuffed puppy
to hold as you read.
• Encourage the children to point to the
puppy on the page as you read the word
puppy.
• Point to each illustration and ask,
“What is the puppy doing?”
• Offer the children a hug at the end of
the story.
• Invite the children to imitate the actions
of the puppy.
My Puppy
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• Offer the children a small stuffed puppy
to hold as you read.
Cover image and Highlights Hello™ copyright © 2015 Highlights for C
Columbus, Ohio. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
• Encourage the children to point to the
puppy on the page as you read the word
puppy.
• Point to each illustration and ask,
“What is the puppy doing?”
• Offer the children a hug at the end of
the story.
• Invite the children to imitate the actions
of the puppy.
© 2017 Teaching Strategies, LLC. • TeachingStrategies.com
Cover image and Highlights Hello™ copyright © 2015 Highlights for Children, Inc.,
Columbus, Ohio. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Intentional Teaching Experiences™
150 bilingual engaging experiences which support children’s growth
across all areas of development and learning with embedded scaffolding
for individualization, and strategies for including all learners.
• Play a g
children
• Point out pairs of objects in the
illustrations: “I see two blue birds, two
pink shoes, and two blocks. And there
are one, two of us reading the story
together!”
Highlights Hello™ and Book Discussion Cards™
12 additional issues with corresponding Book Discussion
Cards™ help teachers inspire a love of reading and promote
language and literacy skills.
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