Synopses & Reviews
50 Early Childhood Literacy Strategies is the answer to the early childhood teacher's dilemma of how to teach reading to children 3, 4, and 5 years of age as mandated by the state and national governments. This book presents an easy-to-use, easy-to-understand approach involving young children's own emergence into the world of speaking and listening, reading and writing. Teachers will quickly learn what picture books and activities to use with children, how to use them, and how children can benefit from their use. They will learn what to expect as young children's writing emerges from scribbles to pictures and real words. Finally, they will come to terms with the concept of emergent literacy as it appears in preschool children and evolves into conventional literacy as it is taught in elementary school.
A brief introduction to each strategy–Discussing the literacy concept associated with the strategy and what the particular strategy teaches. Sets the stage for students understanding of when, how, and with whom to use each strategy – supplies the background needed to create additional strategies to reinforce each lesson. Use of materials, content, and activities found in most early childhood classrooms–Blocks, chalk, crayons, computers, cooking, dolls, dramatics, finger paints, puppets, scissors, storytelling, etc. Makes the books' strategies immediately useful for prospective teachers' first classrooms – allows these fifty ideas to serve as templates for hundreds of additional strategies.
Photos, children's art, and pupils' actual writing samples–Accompanying each strategy. Offer a genuine picture of each strategy's desired outcome – illustrate real children's authentic literacy efforts and show actual children actively engaged in each strategy. Synopsis
Answering the question of how to teach literacy to young children, this thoroughly child-oriented handbook compiles fifty practical strategies that will engage young children in reading and writing and encourage their emerging literacy skills. The choice of strategies is firmly grounded in current research into the brain mechanisms that underlie the skill of reading. In addition, the focus on words—hearing, speaking, writing, and reading them—creates an easy-to-use, easy-to-understand approach that builds on young children’s' eagerness to communicate with others concerning their thoughts and ideas about the world they live in. The book features seven handy checklists at the end of several chapters—Book Handling Behavior, Developing Eye-hand Coordination with Cooking Tools, Early Childhood Writing Behaviors, Independent Skills Checklist, Reading Behaviors Checklist, Speaking Behaviors Checklist, and Caption Writing Progress that highlight a variety of practical observation vehicles for use with young children. It also covers the use of materials, content, and activities found in most early childhood classrooms. For pre-service, pre-school and primary grade teachers.
Synopsis
Answering the question of how to teach literacy to young children, this thoroughly child-oriented handbook compiles fifty practical strategies that will engage young children in reading and writing and encourage their emerging literacy skills. The choice of strategies is firmly grounded in current research into the brain mechanisms that underlie the skill of reading. In addition, the focus on words–hearing, speaking, writing, and reading them–creates an easy-to-use, easy-to-understand approach that builds on young children’s' eagerness to communicate with others concerning their thoughts and ideas about the world they live in. The book covers the use of materials, content, and activities found in most early childhood classrooms. For pre-school and primary grade teachers.
Table of Contents
Part I Children's Speaking/Listening
1. Emergent Literacy
2. Saying Words Aloud
3. Listening
4. Conversation
5. Dramatic Play
6. Bilingual Speaking
7. Rhyming, Alliteration
8. Chanting
9. Singing
10. Book Reading to Children
11. Storytelling
12. Flannel Boards
13. Story Reenacting
14 Puppets
15. Book Tapes, Video Tapes, DVDs
16. Assessing Speaking Progress
Part II Children's Writing
17. Emergent Writing
18. Writing Center
19. Environmental Print
20. Alphabet
21. Names
22. Easel Painting
23. Caption Pictures
24. Finger Painting
25. Chalk, Crayons
26. Shared Writing
27. Invented Spelling
28. Journals, Literature Logs
29. Messages
30 Recipe Charts
31 Block Building
32. Assessing Children's Writing
Part III Children's Reading
33. Emergent Reading
34. Book Center
35. Visual Literacy
36. Children Reading Books
37. Computer Books
38. Shared Reading
39. Book Buddies
40. Big Books
41. Large Font Words
42. Sound Words
43. Syllables
44. Predictable Books
45. Song Storybooks
46. Book Characters
47. Literacy Bags
48. Webs
49. Assessing Reading Progress
50. Words, Words, Words