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Every ChildReady to Read
@ your library®
Every ChildReady to Read
@ your library®
Public Library AssociationAssociation for Library Service to Children
Early Talkers
Peek-a-BooPeekaboo! Peekaboo!
(Cover your face with hands)I see you! I see you!
(Open hands to uncover face)I see your button nose.
(Point to your nose or child’s nose)I see your tiny toes. (Point to child’s feet)
I see you! Peekaboo!(cover and uncover face with hands)
• Help children enjoy language, books and reading
• Six early literacy skills• Art activities to reinforce skills
Today’s WorkshopToday’s
Workshop
Effects of Starting Early
Effects of Starting Early
YOU Are Important• YOU,,parents and caregivers know your
children best
• Children learn by doing.
• Children model parents’ behavior
• First five years set the stage
What do they do?What do you do with them?
Babies and Toddlers(up to 24 months)
Literacy in Our Daily Routine
WHAT IS EARLY LITERACY?
Early literacy is what children know about reading and writing before they can actually read or write.
Six Skills To Get Ready to Read
•Print Motivation•Phonological Awareness
•Vocabulary•Narrative Skills•Print Awareness•Letter Knowledge
Print Motivatio
nChild’s interest in and enjoyment of books
Art Connection• Bookmaking • Draw a picture of a character from the
story • Make something you saw in the story • Draw a picture of your favorite part of
the story • Make your own rebus story • Create story puppets
Phonological Awareness
The ability to hear andplay with the smaller
sounds in words
Eensy Weensy SpiderThe eensy weensy spider climbed
up the water spout
Down came the rain and washed the spider out
Out came the sun and dried up all the rain
So the eensy weensy spider climbed up the spout again.
Art Connection• Sing songs with your child • Make egg shakers• Listen to music especially songs
with words • Share poems with your child
(especially rhyming poems)
Language Has Rhythm
• Itsy, Bitsy Spider• Nursery Rhymes• Children’s songs
Vocabulary
Knowing the names of things
carrotcar rot
ALA granted permission from Janellen Huttenlocher.
Art Connection• Peek a boo• Name Book• Changing Face Puppet• Coffee Can theater• Emotion Cards• Use paintings and photos to help
child identify objects
Narrative Skills
The ability to describe
things and events, and to tell stories
Art Activity
1
2 3
Art Connection• Tell the story of a piece of art
(painting, sculpture, photograph, musical number) – What, who where, why – follow-up – write story that child tells (print awareness)
• Storytelling • Change the ending/sequencing • Act out the story • Puppets
Print Awareness
• Noticing print everywhere
• Knowing how to handle a book• Knowing how we
followthe words on a
page
Labeling/Environmental Print Activity
Labeling/Environmental Print Activity
Art Connection• Drawing • Painting with Colored Yolk • Make your own mailbox and send
letters to yourself and friends • Make and decorate signs
Knowing that letters are different from each
other,that they have different names and relate to
sounds
Letter Knowledge
Art Connection•Clay•Name books•Real life examples
Name Book Activity•Child’s name on cover•One letter on each page•Draw, cut images
Making Connections
•What the child does•Relate to early literacy
skills
Five Steps for Sharing BooksWith Your Baby
• Pick the best time• Show baby the book• Talk and have fun• Watch what baby does• Share a book with your baby
every day
What books are good for this age?
How do I know what to choose?
Questions
Every Child Ready to Read
@ your libraryWe learn as we have
fun.We have fun as we
learn.
Pass it on!
Every Child Ready to Read
@ your libraryWe learn as we have
fun.We have fun as we
learn.
Pass it on!