August 8th, 2010
Category: Books
Tags: Building, Children, Early, Engaging, Literacy, print, Quality, ReadAlouds, Skills, Through
- ISBN13: 9781606235355
- Condition: New
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Product Description
Preschool teachers and early childhood professionals know that storybook reading is important, but they may not know how to maximize its benefits for later reading achievement. This indispensable guide presents research-based techniques for using reading aloud to intentionally and systematically build children’s knowledge of print. Simple yet powerful strategies are provided for teaching preschoolers about book and print organization, print meaning, letters, and words, all while sharing engaging, commercially available books. Appendices include a…
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June 19th, 2010
Category: Books
Tags: About, Awareness, Beginning, Learning, Letters, links, Phonemic, Preschool, print, Words, working
Product Description
Learning about print is a critical component of early literacy, key to young children’s success with beginning reading and school readiness. To help your students become strategic early readers and writers, you need to know the print-related skills and instructional strategies necessary for developing preschoolers knowledge of print. The second edition of Learning About Print in Preschool, part of the Preschool Literacy Collection, will help you do this and much more with its all-new professional development guidelines.
The strategy-based chapters focus specifically on how to target three key predictors of early literacy success and school readiness: concepts of print,…
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June 3rd, 2010
Category: Literacy Skills
Tags: Decoding, Early, Literacy, print, refer, skill, sounds, Spoken, Words
Decoding is a word used in some major early literacy literature, but I don’t find any clear definition of what it is.
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May 26th, 2010
Category: Books
Tags: Activities, Areas, background, Booklets, Boost, Build, Children, Concepts, Content, Explore, Help, Interactive, LiteracyBuilding, MiniBooks, Nonfiction, print, Vocabulary
Product Description
These easy-to-make mini-books and manipulatives are just right for teaching young children about topics such as community, holidays around the world, famous Americans, and national symbols. Features such as simple text, labels, captions, and supportive illustrations let children explore concepts of print, introduce them to nonfiction, and boost vocabulary. Also includes activities, songs, poems, and literature links to build background knowledge. For use with Grades K-1.
Nonfiction Literacy-Building Booklets & Activities: Interactive Mini-Books and Activities That Help Children Explore Concepts of Print, Build Background … and Boost Vocabulary in the Content Areas
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May 7th, 2010
Category: Books
Tags: Booklets, Build, Children, Collection, Concepts, Explore, Help, Interactive, Into, LiteracyBuilding, long, MiniBooks, print, TeachAll, Topics, Vocabulary, Year
Product Description
Help young learners build important skills with these unique reproducible booklets. As children learn key early literacy concepts and develop essential vocabulary, they’ll be intrigued by the engaging formats, shape books, flip books, accordion books, a
Literacy-Building Booklets: A Big Collection of Interactive Mini-Books That Help Children Explore Concepts of Print, Build Vocabulary, and Tie Into the Topics You Teach-All Year Long!
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April 10th, 2010
Category: Books
Tags: cognitive, Development, Literacy, Practice, print, Social, Theories, Uniting
Product Description
Is literacy a social and cultural practice, or a set of cognitive skills to be learned and applied? Literacy researchers, who have differed sharply on this question, will welcome this book, which is the first to address the critical divide. The authors lucidly explain how we develop our abilities to read and write and offer a unified theory of literacy development that places cognitive development within a sociocultural context of literacy practices. Drawing on research that reveals connections between literacy as it is practiced outside of school and as it is taught in school, the authors argue that students…
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March 20th, 2010
Category: Books
Tags: Activities, Children, Environmental, environmental print, Everyday, Literacy, print
- ISBN13: 9780876592861
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
The tools you need to teach literacy are all around you! Everyday Literacy has over 100 activities that use ordinary objects such as cereal boxes, traffic signs and toy labels to help children build essential reading skills. With games such as Chalk Chat and projects like Alphabet Scrapbooks, children will enjoy learning to recognize the letters, symbols and words around them.
Everyday Literacy: Environmental Print Activities for Children 3 to 8
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