Your TELL curriculum package includes…

  • Year long (school year) scope and sequence of instruction

  • Teacher’s guide

  • Curriculum-based measures

  • Developmentally Appropriate Lesson plans

  • High quality narrative and expository books

  • Story retell cards

  • Book summary cards

  • Low tech literacy boards

  • Arrival/sign in cards

  • Whole group warm up cards

  • ABC action cards

  • Question jar

  • Song posters

  • Talk it Out posters and stickers

  • Music list

  • Vocabulary cards

  • Phonological awareness cards

  • Social story cards

  • Letter cards

  • Meal/snack conversation cards

  • Fact chat cards

  • Dramatic play posters

  • Writing cards

  • Transition cards

  • Parent newsletters in English and Spanish

  • Professional development

TELL Biweekly Themes

  • We Love School

  • All About Me

  • Transportation

  • Fairy Tales

  • Creepy Creatures

  • Harvest Time

  • Winter Wonderland

  • Space

  • Dinosaurs

  • Amazing Animals

  • Bugs and Blooms

  • Pets

  • Farm

  • Ocean

TELL is a whole, school year curriculum. It is organized by biweekly themes with review weeks every fifth week. Just prior to the review week, teachers administer curriculum-based measures (CBMs) to assess children’s progress in the curriculum. The data from CBMs are discussed by the teaching team to determine how best to differentiate instruction during review weeks. Many teachers share the CBM results with families.

TELL Learning Opportunities

Activity Learning Goals TELL Components

Arrival Literacy practice Arrival/sign in cards

Dialogic Reading Language & literacy practice Vocabulary cards, books, dialogic reading cards
literacy boards

Whole Group Music & movement, phonological Whole group warm up cards, song posters,
awareness, letter names & sounds, fact chat cards, social stories
vocabulary, social skills

Small Group Phonological awareness, Phonological awareness cards, letter cards
language practice

Meal/Snack Language & literacy practice Conversation cards, fact chat cards, question jar

Writing Whole & Literacy practice Writing cards
Small Group

Indoor Free Play Language practice, social/ Weekly lesson plans materials list
emotional, print concepts,
literacy practice

Outdoor Free Play Gross motor, language & Dramatic play posters and plans, weekly lesson
literacy practice plans

Transitions Language, phonological awareness, Transition cards
social/emotional, alphabet practice