Preschoolers are passionate about learning, and a high-quality preschool program offers rich learning experiences in the areas of language and literacy. This engaging book gives teachers and other professionals fresh ideas, inspiration, and practical tools for integrating age-appropriate literacy instruction into the preschool curriculum. Including helpful vignettes, sample lesson plans, and reproducibles, the book shows how to create a motivating classroom environment, balance child-initiated exploration with structured activities, and support students' developing skills in reading, writing, speaking, and comprehension. Essential topics include preschool assessment and working with English language learners.
A First Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Our Children Need to Know
This revised edition of A First Dictionary of Cultural Literacy offers the common core of knowledge children should have by the end of grade school. E. D. Hirsch, author of the best-selling Cultural Literacy and co-author of The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, has updated his popular children's version for a generation that needs not only a solid grounding in the arts and sciences but a clear understanding of the world around them - from world geography to the World Wide Web. Inviting and informative, the book is organized by subject, including mythology, history, religion and philosophy, music, art, geography, medicine, technology, and many more. No other book gives children so much of the world, from ancient history to current technology, in one engaging volume.
Building Student Literacy Through Sustained Silent Reading offers a practical solution for teachers who want to improve students’ reading ability: Let students choose what they read and give them the time to read it.
This sing-along album invites children to play with the alphabet, discovering objects around them that start with each letter, and developing awareness of the sounds that make up each word. Rhymes, songs and tongue twisters will help your child take important first steps towards literacy while having fun with their favorite Little People characters.
Launch into Literacy is a structured five-book course for 6-11 year olds. THe course presents a range of texts for children to study as models for their own writing, and contextualized activities at text, sentence, and word level. It is ideally suited for use in literacy lessons with whole class and group activities. Book 3 offers ...
