Emmy award-winning poet, Lucille Clifton, introduces and reads her poem, 'Turning,' about trying to be your own person and taking responsibility for your life.

This is a video of two native Spanish speakers getting to know each other, using greetings, memorized phrases, and occasionally slightly higher-level speech. It is meant to be a way for Spanish learners to practice listening skills.

The VPK Learning Center Activities included with this guide are aligned with the Language, Communication and Emergent Literacy Domain within the Florida Early Learning and Developmental Standards for Four-Year-Olds (2011). These standards and associated benchmarks were themselves developed based on the best available research evidence about the important skills that preschool children should know and be able to demonstrate to be ready for kindergarten by the end of the preschool period.

Find teacher resources for pk-12 on our Utah State Board of Education English langauage arts elementary page.