Literacy & Justice: Older Toddlers Curriculum Support - Nature and Ecology Themes

This chart gathers 4 focus book recommendations connected to the themes of Nature, Animals, Plants, Living things, Insects, Life Cycles, Ecology, and the inquiry questions:

How does the world work?

How can we take care of the earth's living and non-living things?

How do they take care of us?

This resource outlines the main ideas, focus on vocabulary with child-friendly definitions in English and Spanish, and a possible way to tune-in and capture the children's attention before sharing the story. This resource is designed as support that teachers can use to plan repeated, interactive TIPS reads and connected activities.