Transcript PLA / ALSC Preschool Literacy Initiative

Every Child
Ready to Read
@ Dallas
Full Workshop
Dallas Public Library
Public Library Association
Association for Library Service to Children
Goals for Today’s
Workshop
• Overview of ECRR Six Pre-Reading Skills
• Activities and book selection for each skill
• Tips for parents and caregivers on
engaging their children in literacy
activities
• Presentation and outreach resources for
early literacy advocates
Core Value of ECRR
• Parents/caregivers are the child’s first
and best teacher.
• Play provides a wide range of benefits and
opportunities for the young child.
• Reading is an essential life skill.
• Lifelong learning is a primary role of the
public library and this learning begins at
birth.
What Research Says
• In 2009, 83% of children from lowincome families—and 85% of lowincome students who attend highpoverty schools—failed to reach the
“proficient” level in reading.
SOURCE: Early Warning! Why Reading
by the End of Third Grade Matters. 2009, KIDS COUNT
Special Report of the Annie E. Casey Foundation
What Research Says
• Overall, a smaller percentage of
children in poverty were read to, told
stories, or sung to daily by a family
member than children at or above
poverty
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National
Center for Education Statistics (2009). The Condition of
Education 2009 (NCES 2009-081),
What Research Says
• If current trends hold true, 6.6
million low-income children in the
birth to age 8 group are at increased
risk of failing to graduate from high
school on time.
• Texas ranks 36 lowest in the nation
on reading proficiency levels.
SOURCE: Early Warning! Why Reading
by the End of Third Grade Matters. 2009, KIDS COUNT
Special Report of the Annie E. Casey Foundation
What Research Says
Having parents teach specific literacy
skills to their children was two times
more effective than having parents
listen to their children read and six
times more effective than
encouraging parents to read to their
children.
SOURCE: The Effect of Family Literacy Interventions On
Children's Acquisition of Reading, 2006
http://lincs.ed.gov/publications/html/lit_interventions/index.html
Six Skills To
Get Ready to Read
• Print Motivation
• Vocabulary
• Narrative Skills
• Phonological Awareness
• Letter Knowledge
• Print Awareness
My Aunt Came Back
My aunt came back
From old Japan,
And she brought with her
A big hand fan.
My aunt came back,
From old Algiers,
And she brought with her,
A pair of shears.
My aunt came back,
From Holland too,
And she brought with her
A wooden shoe.
My aunt came back,
From Guadalupe,
She brought with her,
A hula hoop.
My aunt came back,
From Timbucktoo,
And she brought with her.
A fool like you!
Making Connections
What do children do
in a typical day?
Print
Motivation
Child’s interest in and
enjoyment of books
(language)
Vocabulary
Knowing
the names
of things
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Activities & Crafts
• Emotion Cards (from www.kdl.org PLAY,
GROW, READ
• ABC Game
– Choose a category and have everyone
choose a word that falls into that category
but starts with the next letter of the
alphabet.
Narrative
Skills
The ability to describe
things and events, and
to tell stories
Activity: Dialogic or Hear and
Say Reading
•Ask “What” Questions
●Ask “Open-ended”
Questions
Use general questions to
encourage child to say more
• Simple what questions
• 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
Phonological
Awareness
The ability to hear and
play with the smaller
sounds in words
Activities & Crafts
• Sing songs to emphasize that
language has a rhythm
• Read poems or books that
rhyme, have alliteration and
tongue twisters
• Say it Fast, Say it Slow
Say it Fast, Say it Slow
carrot
car
rot
Letter
Knowledge
Knowing that letters are
different from each other,
that they have different
names and relate to sounds
Knowledge of alphabet
letters at entry into
kindergarten is a
strong predictor of
reading ability in 10th
grade.
Name Book Activity
• Child’s name on cover
• One letter on each page
• Draw or cut images out of a
magazine that start with the
same letters as the ones in your
name.
Print Awareness
• Noticing print everywhere
• Knowing how to
handle a book
• Knowing how we follow
the words on a page
Activities & Crafts
• Labeling/Environmental Print Activity
– Use stickers or post-it notes to label
the things around you
– Where are everyday places you see
print?
• Cereal/Food Box Books
– From www.kdl.org PLAY, GROW, READ
Resources
Rich in Language
How many words do we use?
•By Age 2 - 200
•Age 3 - 2,000
•Age 5 - over 4,000
•Average Spoken - 10,000
•Average Dictionary - 100,000
•OED - over 600,000 definitions
Books
•Predictable - Magic Hat, Mem Fox
•Wordless - Tuesday, David Wiesner
•Concept - A Was Once an Apple Pie,
Edward Lear
•Poetry - Jack Prelutsky
•Information - Head to Toe, Eric Carle
THANK YOU!
www.dallaslibrary.org/ecrr
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