Format: Book
Author: Matteson, David M. & Freeman, Deborah K.
Publication Date: 2006
Brief Description:
Based on strong understandings of developmentally appropriate practices, the authors have created and explained a continuum designed to assess what very young children know about oral language, drawing, and writing. This new, well-researched and easy-to-use assessment tool helps teachers determine powerful next literacy steps and instruction for their young students. Many writing, drawing, and construction examples, and vignettes of conversations between teachers and children show what best practices look and sound like in instructional settings for 3-6 year old learners. Selected visuals and data-gathering forms will help educators in early literacy settings get the most out of developmentally appropriate instruction. From Richard Owen Publishers.
“Assessing and Teaching Beginning Writers: is packed with research and appropriate practice. It provides vignettes of real stories about student assessment and instruction. It deals with early literacy development in an interesting, caring, and innovative manner through the lens of assessment. It is a must-read for all involved with teaching young children.” —Lesley Mandel Morrow, Ph.D., Rutgers University
Literacy and the Youngest Learner
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.
Teaching 4-8 year olds: Literacy, Math, Multiculturalism, and classroom community
Format: Book
Author: Carollee Howes, Ph.D.
Publication Date: 2002
Brief Description:
This book helps education professionals tune in to how 4- to 8-year-olds think and learn and provides sound research-based information and developmentally appropriate teaching practices in four crucial areas: literacy, mathematics, multiculturalism, and classroom community.
Read, Play and Learn!
Format: Book
Author: Linder, Tony W.
Publication Date:
Brief Description:
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.
Publication Date:
Brief Description:
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.
Teaching 4- to 8-Year-Olds-Literacy, Math, Multiculturalism, and Classroom Community
Format: Book
Author: Howes, Carollee Ph D.
Publication Date:
Brief Description:
In this exciting new book, education professionals will tune in to how 4- to 8-year-olds think and learn — and get sound research-based information and developmentally appropriate teaching practices in four crucial areas:
- Literacy — including promoting enthusiasm for reading, developing phonological awareness, and improving reading comprehension
- Mathematics — including creating data displays, looking for patterns, drawing on everyday experiences, and working math into classroom conversations
- Multiculturalism — including accepting differences, discouraging stereotypes, and developing an awareness of diverse cultures and family structures
- Classroom community — including making friends, resolving conflicts, and strengthening student–teacher relationships
For each topic, a theory chapter brings current research together in everyday language and shows readers how the concepts work through lively examples. Then, a corresponding practice chapter translates the research for each topic into real-world tips and strategies. Readers get brief, to-the-point advice on issues like teaching English-language learners, assessing skills, enhancing school readiness, and giving all children a voice in the classroom.
Enriched with best practices from high-quality classrooms and insight from teachers, this book gives education professionals practical solutions to common challenges
Lullabies Around the World/Book and Cassette (K-adult) (Audio CD)
Format: CD
Author: Musical arrangements by Sara Jordan. n.
Publication Date: 2001
Brief Description:
Award winner of both a Parents' choice Silver Award and Director's Choice Award. Eleven lullabies sung by singers, each in his/her native tongue and then sung in English. Includes Italian, Spanish, French, Russian, Polish, Manadarin and Yiddish lullabies. Multicultural activities are also included in the accompanying lyrics book.
Are You Listening? Fostering Conversations That Help Young Children Learn
Format: Book
Author: Lisa Burman
Publication Date: 2008
Brief Description:
Conversations take place in every early childhood classroom-between teachers and children, and among children. Are You Listening? asks teachers to examine these conversations and their impact on children's learning. Often, teachers use conversations to impart information to children instead of really listening to children and allowing them to make their own decisions. Grounded in child-centered, relationship-based theory, this book covers topics such as how to create an environment that supports quality conversations, how to encourage conversations that support learning and development, and how to work with children with limited language capabilities.
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