Families Together Cooperative Nursery School offers a specially focused Literacy Enrichment class that utilizes puppet-theater, storytelling, reading, writing, dramatization, social collaboration and games to enhance children's process of becoming readers and writers. Our approach to Literacy class is highly differentiated and students will learn and grow whether they are just beginning to recognize letters or already reading and writing. 

Students typically begin class by drawing in their individual journals and having a teacher or parent assistant help them write text to go with the drawing. A group “Hello” time and fun literacy-based group game follows. Centers are next and include a reading station, manipulative station where students might do a puzzle or other letter-based game, a fine motor station where emerging writing skills are practiced, a more advanced writing station, and a gross motor station on the rug. The group then returns to the rug to talk with puppet “Maya Word,” guess and discuss the word of the day that Maya has brought to share, and read a book based on the word. The class concludes with each student creating an entry for that week’s class book and sharing their entry with their classmates through a “performance.” Each week, one student will have the chance to bring the class book home.