Transcript PLA / ALSC Preschool Literacy Initiative

Every Child
Ready to Read
@ your library®
Early Talkers
Public Library Association
Association for Library Service to Children
Peek-a-Boo
Peekaboo! 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)
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
Babies and
Toddlers
(up to 24 months)
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
• 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 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 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
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carrot
car
rot
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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
Narrative
Skills
The ability to describe
things and events, and
to tell stories
Art Activity
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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 follow
the words on a page
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
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
Making Connections
• What the child does
• Relate to early literacy skills
Five Steps for Sharing Books
With Your Baby
• Pick the best time
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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 library
We learn as we have fun.
We have fun as we learn.
Pass it on!