Picture Stories & Language Activities
Communication & Literacy

Winter

Matt and Molly Stories

17-page manual, 32 story cards (8½" x 11"), 9 sentences/question flash cards, all in a vinyl folder

Ages 3 - 8
Grades PreK - 3
Product Code 37611 ( MR #060479 )

Price $39.00

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Target receptive and expressive language skills with engaging Matt and Molly stories, motivating hands-on activities, and predictable lesson routines.

Humorous Matt and Molly stories engage children and teach essential early langage skills. Consistent lesson routines, simple story lines, and hands-on activities help them succeed!

Target 60 vocabulary words and concepts as you teach the simple story line and ask questions. The story titles are:

Molly Makes a Snowman
Soup for Molly
Let's Play Basketball
Molly is Cold!
A Gift for Molly
Happy New Year!
Riding a Sled
A Sweater for Molly

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Loveable Matt and Molly teach communication and literacy skills with familiar characters, predictable routines, and fun antics. Children develop skills in vocabulary, grammar, representational play, sequencing, reading comprehension, predicting, identifying feelings, answering questions, and determining missing information.

The complete 5-program set features theme-based stories for Animals, Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter.

Each program contains eight theme-based stories and activities target skills in:

narrative language
vocabulary and concepts
answering questions
sequencing and predicting
determining what's missing
reading comprehension

Each program includes eight stories (total of 40 stories in the set) with:

four full-color, 8½" x 11" sequence pictures for each story (32 total pictures)
four large-print sentence strips per story that students match to the correct illustrations (32 sentence strips for each program)
six wh- and how word cards, a Yes card, and a No card for the question-asking activities
a teacher manual with complete lesson plans and teaching techniques designed to engage students in learning. The manual includes:

ready-to-use lists of yes/no, wh-, and how questions for each story
target vocabulary/concept words
teaching suggestions
a list of easy-to-find props for role-playing each story sequence

Each lesson follows the same two-day routine and can be used with one student, a small group, or an entire class. Matt and Molly are the main characters of every story, so students begin to consider them good friends as they progress through each lesson.

Day one routine is: