Author: Jennifer Prior
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
ISBN: 9781425891695
Category: Education
Page: 176
View: 344
Learn how to boost phonemic awareness and phonics in early readers using environmental print. In addition to supporting the five components of reading, this resource provides a strong foundation for English Language Learners. Includes key background information for the teacher, easy-to-follow lesson plans, and reproducible student activities. 176pp.
Author: Denise LaRose
Publisher: Shell Education
ISBN: 1425806988
Category: Education
Page: 180
View: 280
Engage early learners with these lively and easy-to-use reading activities designed to introduce and build developmentally-appropriate skills. Step-by-step directions make implementation easy and students will have fun while learning! Each activity is research and standards-based including whole-class and small-group activities to enhance learning. Books include all patterns and game pieces as well as a Teacher Resource CD containing all of the activities in full color.
Author: Maureen Walcavich
Publisher: Carson-Dellosa Publishing
ISBN: 9781604183962
Category: Juvenile Nonfiction
Page: 96
View: 406
Use logos, labels, packages, and signs to create meaningful literacy experiences for students in grades PK–1 with Environmental Print Activities. This book is organized along a learning continuum that progresses with students’ literacy skills from matching and identifying environmental print to classifying initial sounds and syllables. It includes ideas for centers, the word wall, parents as partners, and checklists. This 96-page book contains ideas and activities that help students feel like successful readers and writers.
Author: Katherine Luongo-Orlando
Publisher: Pembroke Publishers Limited
ISBN: 9781551382579
Category: English language
Page: 169
View: 703
How can we build a strong literacy foundation for children? This book appreciates that learning and language development start with the play episodes, oral language practices, wordplay activities, print encounters, reading events, and writing experiences that children engage in during the early years of life. Filled with rich language activities, The Cornerstones to Early Literacy shows teachers how to create active learning experiences that are essential to building early literacy. This comprehensive handbook is organized around the following topics: Play Experiences - Understanding the early stages of learning and all aspects of the play-literacy connection ; Oral Language - Supporting opportunities for child talk with suggested conversation starters and events that involve personal timelines and storytelling ; Language Awareness and Word Play - Creating a balanced approach to language learning using games and activities that involve literature, music, choral speaking, sound games, and more ; Print Encounters - Discovering, reproducing, and creating all forms of environmental print ; Reading Events - Integrating read-aloud and shared book experiences with proven strategies for supporting and observing young readers ; Writing Experiences - Identifying early writing characteristics and techniques for moving children along in their writing.
Author: Wendy Koza
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
ISBN: 142580635X
Category: Education
Page: 248
View: 597
Create and manage an effective and developmentally-appropriate early childhood classroom! Filled with management suggestions and recommendations for young children's development, this guide provides ready-to-use lessons and templates to enhance learning.
Author: Jennifer Prior
Publisher: Shell Education
ISBN: 1425807534
Category: Education
Page: 166
View: 122
Provide students with fun, effective strategies and activities to use with their families to support classroom learning and boost academic achievement at home. With parents and caregivers as essential partners An Educator's Guide to Family Involvement in Early Literacy offers 30 ready-to-use reproducible family letters in both English and Spanish, ideas and materials for take-home backpack activities, and family literacy workshops in a variety of content areas and topics. Helping to build early-literacy skills in children and a strong family-school partnerships, this resources provides support with how to help parents use these strategies, tools, and resources at home. Digital resources are provided in order to customize the provided materials to better suit the needs of your students and families.
Author: Denise LaRose
Publisher: Shell Education
ISBN: 1425806996
Category: Arithmetic
Page: 180
View: 674
Engage early learners with these lively and easy-to-use mathematics activities designed to introduce and build developmentally-appropriate skills. Step-by-step directions make implementation easy and students will have fun while learning! Each activity is research and standards-based including whole-class and small-group activities to enhance learning. Books include all patterns and game pieces as well as a Teacher Resource CD containing all of the activities in full color.
Author: Beth Anne Bray
Publisher: Shell Education
ISBN: 142580697X
Category: Creative activities and seat work
Page: 180
View: 321
Engage early learners with these lively and easy-to-use phonemic awareness activities designed to introduce and build developmentally-appropriate skills. Step-by-step directions make implementation easy and students will have fun while learning! Each activity is research and standards-based including whole-class and small-group activities to enhance learning. Books include all patterns and game pieces as well as a Teacher Resource CD containing all of the activities in full color.
Author: Jennifer Prior
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
ISBN: 9781425873059
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Page: 2
View: 851
Use environmental print to boost early readers' focus on fluency and comprehension skills. Environmental-print activities involving reading and rereading, meaning making, and writing are included.
Author: Beverly Otto
Publisher: Waveland Press
ISBN: 9781478638995
Category: Education
Page: 281
View: 559
Widely recognized as a leading text in its field, this popular guide explores literacy development beginning in infancy and through fourth grade. The latest edition continues to prepare teachers to create and implement literacy-rich curricula in early childhood classrooms, while providing updates to federal legislation and highlighting the impact of state standards on educational settings. Recent technology is integrated into activities used to enhance literacy competencies. Throughout the book, the author’s approach to reflective teaching empowers teachers to become effective decision makers and thoughtful mediators in children’s transactions with literacy. A conceptual and theoretical foundation for describing reading and writing processes is followed by research-based descriptions of the signs of emergent literacy and developmentally appropriate instructional strategies. The emphasis on linguistic and cultural diversity includes an array of approaches for supporting English language learners. Chapter extension activities challenge readers to apply concepts through observation, research, curriculum development, and discussion. Sample observation and assessment forms assist in determining children’s progress in developing literacy.
Author: Joanne Larson
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9781446265918
Category: Education
Page: 704
View: 882
This new edition of the much-loved Handbook of Early Childhood Literacy has been revised and updated to retain its cutting-edge focus on emergent and important areas of research. This comprehensive work guides the reader through current social, cultural and historical analysis on a global scale. The new edition contains a greater range of methodologies, and chapters on: - space and literacy - disabilities and early childhood literacy - digital literacies - indigenous literacy - play and literacy - policy In the Handbook, readers will find coverage of all the key topics in early childhood literacy. The exceptional list of contributors offers in-depth expertise in their respective areas of knowledge. The Handbook is essential for Undergraduate students; Masters students; PhD students; CPD students; researchers, and literacy-centre personel. 'The second edition of this internationally respected and widely used text encompases a myriad of new issues and insights, both through new contributions and thoughtfully revised chapters which raise fresh questions and challenges for research and practice. In pushing the boundaries still further, the handbook retains its rightful place at the forefront of research into early childhood literacy practice in the 21st century' -Professor Teresa Cremin, Open University UK 'This handbook provides in-depth knowledge of insights and theories about the dynamic process of how children come to know literacy as thinking humans in social and cultural spaces. There is a rich array of research perspectives of children's meaning-making through family and digital liteacies, play and literacy, and in-school and out-of-school literacy experiences' - Yetta Goodman, Regents Professor, University of Arizona
