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Figure 4
Thematic Craft Activity
Part of the instructional routine during storytime sessions focus on emergent
writing. For this session, emerging authors chose pictures and/or objects to
measure and used alternative pencils such as letter stamps, cut out alphabet letters,
markers, or alphabet flipcharts to complete predictable writing prompts. The
culminating activity for this week is a thematic craft where opportunities to request
"more" materials and making choices to design their own inchworm.
Parents play a key role in the storytime sessions. Facilitators, including
graduate students from PSU's special education or speech pathology program,
model how to use tools and strategies, engage their children with books and
experiment with assistive technology during the sessions. A take-home sheet
