Transcript STAR - West Virginia Library Association

STAR
Using the Sing, Talk, and Read
philosophy for Baby Lap Time
What is “Lap Time”
• A program for the smallest patrons (newborn
to walking)
• Encourages parent child interactions
• Specially designed to foster developmental
milestones
• Focuses on songs, rhymes, bounces, and short
stories
Why have a Baby Lap Time?
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Provides an engaging environment for new parents
Offers and provides resources on Early Literacy
Makes parents aware of their role in the education process
Promotes the library and it’s resources
Helps foster the parent-child bond
Develops life long library habits
Model best practices for early childhood development
What is “Early Literacy”
• According to the organization Zero to Three, the definition of early
literacy is, "what children know about communication, verbal and
nonverbal language, reading, and writing before they can actually
read and write."
• Early literacy encompasses the child's totality of experiences with
conversation, oral and written stories, books, and print. Young
children need a variety of skills in order to become successful
readers.
• Specific early literacy skills become the building blocks for later
reading and writing.
• Research indicates that children who enter school with more of
these skills are better able to benefit from the reading instruction
they receive when they arrive at school.
• Children who are read to from an early age have a larger vocabulary
and better language skills when they start school.
It is NOT teaching children to read!
The Early Literacy Skills
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Vocabulary, knowing the correct names for things, is an extremely important skill for children to
have when they are learning to read. Most children enter school knowing between 3,000 and
5,000 words.
Print motivation is a child's interest in and enjoyment of books. A child with print motivation
enjoys being read to, plays with books, pretends to write, asks to be read to and likes trips to the
library.
Print awareness includes learning that writing in English follows basic rules such as flowing from
top-to-bottom and left-to-right, and that the print on the page is what is being read by someone
who knows how to read.
Narrative skills, being able to understand and tell stories, and describe things, are important for
children being able to understand what they are learning to read.
Letter knowledge includes learning that letters have names and are different from each other, and
that specific sounds go with specific letters.
Phonological awareness is the ability to hear and manipulate the smaller sounds in words.
Phonological awareness includes the ability to hear and create rhymes, to say words with sounds
or chunks left out and the ability to put two word chunks together to make a word. Most children
who have difficulty in reading have trouble in phonological awareness.
Oral Language is the foundation of early literacy that includes listening, speaking and non-verbal
communication.
Background Knowledge or what children know about the world that helps them understand what
is being read.
The Early Literacy Practices
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Singing: Singing is an easy and enjoyable way to involve children in language. It
helps children learn and remember new words and to hear the smaller sounds in
words. Strong vocabularies and being able to hear the syllables in words are
critical to helping children be ready to learn to read.
Talking: Talking with children is an easy way to help them develop language and
other early literacy skills. Conversations and storytelling with children introduce
them to many new words and to story structure and help them better understand
what they read later in school.
Reading: Shared reading is the single most important way to help children get
ready to learn to read. It teaches them new words, shows them how a book works,
and introduces them to the printed word. Introducing reading as a fun activity
helps to motivate a child to want to learn to read.
Writing: Reading and writing go together. When children experiment with writing,
they come to understand that printed letters stand for printed words. Being away
of print helps them be prepared to learn to read.
Playing: All of the practices above should be done within the context of play, but
play is an activity in and of itself as well. Pretend play, dramatic play, sorting, doing
puzzles-- these all help children develop skills that will make it easier for them to
learn to read.
Milestones
Birth to 3 months
• Visual
begin tracking
high contrast colors
• Cognitive
prefer human voices
provide comfort/babble
• Movement
hand and leg control
grasping/ opening and closing hands
• Social
copy expressions
squeals with delight and selectively smiles
Milestones
4-7 months
• Visual
distance
colors
• Cognitive
grabbing
moving items hand to hand
• Movement
sitting up/crawling
• Social
react to “no”
understand tone of voice
imitate sounds/actions
Milestones
8-12 months
• Visual
is visually attentive
• Cognitive
sorting
looking for hidden objects
more dexterous
• Movement
sits unsupported
can use pincher grab
can stand
• Social
observes the movement of others
Lap Time Activities
Hello Songs
Tickles
Body awareness
Rhymes
Bounces
Short Stories
Shakers
Lullabies
Book Share
Resources
• http://storytimesecrets.blogspot.com/
• http://www.earlylit.net/storytimeshare/
• http://www.mgol.net/
• http://www.clel.org/content/onlineresources-planning-baby-storytimes
• http://libguides.dclibrary.org/star
My “Typical” Songs/Activities
Hello Toes, how do you do?
I’m just fine and I’m dancing too…
With a do do do do dodda dodda do
I’m just fine and I’m dancing too!
(knees, tummy, hands, neck, head)
Round and Round the Garden Goes the Teddy Bear
One Step, Two Step, Tickle them under there!
Round about, Round about goes the wee mouse
Up a step, Up a step, All around the house.
Eye Winker, Tom Tinker, Nose Blower
Mouth Eater, Chin Chopper,
Gootchie Gootchie Goo!
This is the way we wash our feet,
Wash our feet, wash our feet,
This is they way we wash our feet
So early in the morning.
(knees, tummy, hands, neck, ears, hair)
Bouncing up and down in my little red wagon (x3)
Won't you be my darling
One wheel's off and the axle's draggin’ (x3)
Won't you be my darling
Jonnie has a hammer and he can fix it (x3)
Won't you be my darling
The Grand ol’ Duke of York,
He had 10,000 men
He marched them up to the top of the hill
And he marched them down again
And when they’re up they’re up
And when they’re down they’re down
But when they’re only half way up
They’re neither up nor down
Tommy Thumb
Twinkle Twinkle
Shakers
Mirrors
Scarves