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Emergent Literacy

Illustration of a forest landscape. A sad turtle is the foreground, while a rabbit and bird run off into the distance.

Narration: Ruby the tortoise was sad. Rabbit had run off to distant fields. Bird had flown high in the sky. They had adventures, but Ruby could only slowly walk around. How boring.

How did Ruby feel when Rabbit and Bird left?

Illustration of a scared turtle hiding in their shell and a fox smelling the turtle.

Narration: Then she noticed some tiny yellow spots and went to investigate. Tucked behind a leafy bush were some large golden flowers. Yum! Delicious! Suddenly, Ruby looked up and saw a fox. Luckily, she could hide safely in her shell until the danger passed.

What did Ruby like about the flowers?

Illustration of a scared turtle hiding in their shell and a fox smelling the turtle.

Narration: Then she noticed some tiny yellow spots and went to investigate. Tucked behind a leafy bush were some large golden flowers. Yum! Delicious! Suddenly, Ruby looked up and saw a fox. Luckily, she could hide safely in her shell until the danger passed.

What kept Ruby safe?

Illustration of a milk carton, apples, and loaf of bread.

Mom needed help, so Brent took the apples, Anya took the milk and Kate took the bread. What did Brent take?


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Emergent Numeracy

Illustration of adults and children in line to board a school bus.

Touch who is FIRST in line for the bus.

Illustrations of a frog jumping from a lily pad. The frog jumps a medium distance in the first illustration. The frog jumps the longest distance in the second illustration. And the frog jumps the shortest distance in the last illustration.

Touch the frog that did the LONGEST jump.

Illustration of a young girl and the following shaded shapes: triangle, circle, rectangle, and square.
Illustration of shaded shapes: rectangle (top), arrow (top left), triangle (top right), circle (center), square (bottom left), and rhombus (bottom right).

Mia made this picture with the shapes that she cut out.

Touch ALL the shapes that are in her picture.

Illustration of two students in front of bowls with six beads underneath.

Move ALL the beads into the bowls so that Tom and Mia each have the SAME number of beads.

Illustration of light and dark beads in a sequential pattern. Empty circles at the end the pattern for user to identify which colored beads come next. There are two light and two dark beads left underneath.

Tom made this pattern. Move ALL the beads to continue his pattern.


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