Format: Book
Author:Bennett- Armistead, Susan V., Moses, Annie M., & Duke, Nell K.
Publication Date: 2006
Brief Description:
Literacy—the ability to listen, speak, read, and write—begins developing long before children enter elementary school. Catherine Snow states in the foreword: “Every early childhood setting needs a copy of this book,” and we agree. This volume will support teachers as they work to meet new literacy standards in developmentally appropriate ways, offering guidance on building essential skills such as oral language and phonological awareness and useful suggestions for dramatic play areas, book nooks, writing centers, and other spaces that together create a literacy-rich environment. From Scholastic.
Read, Play and Learn!
Format: Book
Author: Linder, Tony W.
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With a school-year's worth of ready-to-use lessons, this curriculum provides teachers with story-related activities centered around themes like enjoying seasonal festivities, sharing emotions, making friends, understanding other cultures, and just having fun! Read, Play, and Learn!® includes the Teacher's Guide and two collections of modules linked to popular storybooks. It's an easy way for teachers to promote general development and boost cognitive, sensorimotor, communication/language, social, and emerging literacy skills.
Teacher's Guide
The Teacher's Guide provides guidance on how to encourage early learning and development by creating a literacy-rich environment for preschool and kindergarten children of all ability levels. The guide explains all the basics: how to arrange the classroom, organize the school day, teach children with varying levels of ability, and involve families in education. Best of all, the curriculum guide includes modifications so teachers can individualize instruction and capitalize on the unique strengths of every child. It offers background information on the importance of play and literature in early learning, provides an overview of developmental domains, and discusses what to expect at various levels of children's development.
Module Collections
The Module Collections are two handy sets of instructive modules that are linked to popular children's storybooks. Each individually bound module — now sold separately — offers 2 to 3 weeks worth of story-related activities and learning experiences for young children; a brief summary of the storybook; planning sheets; a list of materials needed for the activities; a list of key words and concepts; ideas for modifying the activities for children of varying ability levels; sample letters to help keep families informed of classroom activities; and an appendix of alternative storybooks, songs, fingerplays, and activities.
Collection 1 includes ideas and activities thematically linked to the Fall semester. One module is linked to each of these eight popular stories:
- The Kissing Hand, by Audrey Penn
- Somebody and the Three Blairs, by Marilyn Tolhurst
- Picking Apples & Pumpkins, by Amy and Richard Hutchings
- The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything, by Linda Williams
- The Knight and The Dragon, by Tomie dePaola
- Abiyoyo, by Pete Seeger
- Night Tree, by Eve Bunting
- The Snowy Day, by Ezra Jack Keats
Collection 2 offers activities and themes appropriate for the Spring semester. One module is linked to each of the following eight stories:
- A Porcupine Named Fluffy, by Helen Lester
- First Flight, by David McPhail
- Friends, by Helme Heine
- The Three Billy Goats Gruff, by Janet Stevens
- The Three Little Javelinas, by Susan Lowell
- Franklin Has a Sleepover, by Paulette Bourgeois and Brenda Clark
- The Rainbow Fish, by Marcus Pfister [Translated by J. Alison James]
- A Rainbow of Friends, by P.K. Hallinan
Road to the code: A phonological Awareness for young children
Format: Book
Author: Benita A. Blachman, Ph.D., Eileen Wynne Ball, Ph.D., Rochella Black, M.S., & Darlene M. Tangel, Ph.D.
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For helping kindergartners and first graders who are having difficulty on their early literacy skills, Road to the Code is a successful, 11-week program for teaching phonemic awareness and letter sound correspondence. Developmentally sequenced, each of the 44 15-20-minute lessons features three activities — Say-It-and-Move-It, Letter Name and Sound Instruction, and Phonological Awareness Practice — that give students repeated opportunities to practice and enhance their beginning reading and spelling abilities. Road to the Code is backed by more than 10 years of study in kindergarten and first-grade classrooms.
Detailed scripted instructions and reproducible materials — such as Alphabet Picture and Sound Bingo cards — make this program easy for teachers to use. Teachers have the flexibility to work with students individually or in small groups and may adjust the amount of time it takes for a student to complete the program. With these proven phonological awareness activities, educators can confidently intervene before children have a chance to fail.
Storytelling Themes with Vivian Paley
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This video shares the details of storytelling and story acting with Vivian Paley. We see the ways in which stories are used by children to discuss everything from boys in bathtubs to mean sisters. Paley shows us how stories help children begin to make sense of the world. 24 min. Produced by The Child Care Collection at Ball State University. Also available on VHS (#808).
Storytelling, Story Acting, and Inclusion (Companion Guide to video #804)
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This book is a companion guide to the video Vivian Paley and the Boy Who Could Tell Stories (order #804). Offers concrete support for teachers inspired to explore the techniques Paley demonstrates.
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