This comprehensive resource guide helps you build essential language skills with lifelike miniatures (realia). It will show you how to set up and manage your realia collection, and give you dozens of language-rich activities. Students learn to name the objects, describe them in detail, sort them into categories, follow directions, tell stories, and more. Included templates let you make your own felt story mats for Under the Sea, At the Pond, and other story scenes. Use with our Vocabulary Development Center or your own collection of miniatures. 72 pages.