Happy Little Garbage Truck Teacher's Guide with Vocabulary Words

The Happy Little Garbage Truck's Teacher's Guide with Vocabulary Cards provides lesson plans in literacy and social skills for special education, inclusion, transitional kindergarten, pre-school and primary students (K-2nd grade).

Language, Cognitive and Literacy

Using a "hands on," multi-modality approach, the students develop:

- Word recognition and writing skills

- Use of higher-level vocabulary from text to describe situations in story

- Develop expressive and receptive language skills in answering

o Who, what, when, why questions

o How to find answers using context clues when engaged in directed conversations with peers and teachers

- Ability to retell story

- Ability to relate story incidents to personal experiences

Social Emotional

Using modeling and games, students will:

- Learn how to identify, recognize and label feelings

- Gain use of vocabulary skills to describe feelings

- Connect with the main character's feelings

- Identify peers as friends

- Play games created to promote collaborative interaction and problem solving skills