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