It's autumn—cooler temperatures, shorter days, crisper air, and yes, runnier noses. It's a great time to teach your little learners about the change of seasons and how they affect the world around them. Check out these resources and tips from INFOhio to help teach your PreK-3 students about autumn.
INFOhio's Early Learning Portal has more than 50 websites and apps aligned to Ohio's Early Learning Standards. Each resource has been selected by a teacher or librarian, and evaluated with a rubric to ensure the best websites and apps for early learners are available all in one spot. Check out Unite for Literacy, a collection of free nonfiction eBooks on a variety of topics and in a variety of languages, in the Reading resources.
Watch Fletcher and the Falling Leaves and How Do you Know it's Fall?
Then, do the Puzzlers together as a class - Word Match for vocabulary, Fact or Fiction, and Which Came First for sequencing. Finally, browse through the Explore the Web tab to find printables, fall leaf animations, and more games to play with the students.
Search for "autumn" and use the Lexile limiter on the left to find articles and activities from Scholastic News and other publications for kids. Make sure to view and print the PDF version if available for engaging, full-color content.
Read about scarecrows, seasons, and weather in World Books Early Learning. Use the visual scroll menu to find the weather topic or choose the Stories button at the top.
Then, go to Print and Do to find a fun activity. Print mazes and connect the dot activities for little learners to practice coloring and counting.
Check out the streaming videos available in the DVC. Search for "autumn" and limit your search to PreK-3. You will find several videos appropriate for your students to view. "Fall" is available in both Spanish and English for ELL.
Want to search BookFlix, World Book Early Learning, the DVC, the contents of Explora for Grades PreK-5 and more, all at the same time? Try a search for "autumn" in ISearch. Explore the contents of the My Library, Encyclopedias, and Basic Sources tabs to find the content that's right for your students.
To get to the full text of any item, click the View/Download button.
There's lots of great content for your PreK-5 classroom at www.infohio.org! Bonfires, football games, and falling leaves—INFOhio has it all! (Except for tissues for those cold weather bugs!) Happy fall!
Emily Rozmus is a Senior Instructional Specialist at INFOhio. She has worked in education for over 25 years, first as a secondary English teacher and district librarian before starting at INFOhio in 2013. Emily has developed district growth plans, integrated technology, created instruction for information literacy, fostered teacher development, and worked on teams to implement curriculum. At INFOhio, she focuses on training educators to use INFOhio resources to improve early learning. She also works to share research and best practices for helping students be better readers of INFOhio's digital text.
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