Native American Writing
WRITING
Unit – Celebrations – Thanksgiving
Objective: Experience how the Native Americans created writings by making an Indian teepee.
Discuss with students the types of housing available to Native Americans and the settlers in early American life. Tell them that they are going to create a teepee which is the type of housing used by Native Americans. Explain that the Native American often used pictures to tell stories and wrote those stories on the walls of the teepees.
Materials:
Three poles
Large pieces of paper
Markers
Stamps and stamp pads
Give students large pieces of paper. Allow them to use markers or stamps and stamp pads to create pictures on the paper. Assemble the paper and poles to create of teepee.
Ask students to tell the story that they wrote on the sides of the teepee.
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Kindergarten & Prekindgarten: General Reading Processes: Vocabulary
D. Vocabulary
3. Understand acquire and use new vocabulary
a. Use illustrations to find meaning of unknown words.
Writing
1 b. Generate ideas by using letter-like shapes, symbols and letters,
dictating words and phrases and using drawings to represent ideas
1b. Dictate or write words, phrases, or sentences related to ideas or
drawings
2. b. Contribute to a shared writing experience or topic of interest
Political Science
1a. Identify similarities and differences in peoples characteristics, habits,
And living patterns to describe how they meet the same human needs.
3 c1c. Identify ways that people communicate messages
Preschool:
Pre-reading
2. Recognize that symbols have corresponding meaning
3. Develop writing skills by recognizing that drawings, paintings,
And writing are meaning representations
Adaptations and Accommodations
Stampers
Paper taped to desk to prevent movement
Paper on floor
