Transcript PLA / ALSC Preschool Literacy Initiative

Every Child
Ready to Read
@ your library®
Talkers
Public Library Association
Association for Library Service to Children
Five Little Ducks
Five little ducks went out one day,
Over the hills and far away.
Mother Duck said,
“Quack, quack, quack, quack."
But only 4 little ducks came back.
Four little ducks . . .
Three little ducks . . .
Two little ducks . . .
One little duck . . .
Well, sad Mother Duck went out one day,
Over the hills and far away,
Mother Duck said, "Quack, quack, quack."
And all of the 5 little ducks came back.
QUACK! QUACK! QUACK! QUACK!
Today’s Workshop
• Help children enjoy language,
books and reading
• Six early literacy skills
• Art activities to reinforce skills
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
Two- and
Three- Year
Olds
What do they do?
What do you do
with them?
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
Motivation
Child’s interest in and
enjoyment of books
Art Connection
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Bookmaking
Draw a picture/character
Make something in story
Favorite part of picture
Rebus story
puppets
Phonological
Awareness
The ability to hear and
play with the smaller
sounds in words
Eensy Weensy Spider
The 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
• Musical instruments
• Music with words
• Poems
Language Has
Rhythm
• Itsy, Bitsy Spider
• Nursery Rhymes
• Children’s songs
Vocabulary
Knowing
the names
of things
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carrot
car
rot
Vocabulary
• Things
• Feelings
• Concepts
Art Connection
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Peek a boo
Name Book
Changing Face Puppet
Coffee Can theater
Emotion Cards
Use paintings and photos to help
child identify objects
Print Awareness
• Noticing print everywhere
• Knowing how to
handle a book
• Knowing how we follow
the words on a page
Labeling/
Environmental
Print Activity
Letter
Knowledge
Knowing that letters are
different from each other,
that they have different
names and relate to sounds
Art Connection
• Clay
• Name books
• Real life examples
Name Book Activity
• Child’s name on cover
• One letter on each page
• Draw, cut images
Narrative
Skills
The ability to describe
things and events, and
to tell stories
Art Connection
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Fingerplays
Acting out story
Drawing
Storytelling
Puppets
Making Connections
• What the child does
• Relate to early literacy skills
Dialogic or
Hear and Say Reading
Ask
“What”
Questions
Ask Open Ended Questions
Use general questions to
encourage child to say more
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Simple what questions
Add description
What do you see on this page?
What’s happening here?
What else do you see?
Build upon the child’s phrases
Have your child repeat
• Relate to child’s experiences
Dialogic Reading
Questions
Every Child Ready to Read
@ your library
We learn as we have fun.
We have fun as we learn.
Pass it on!