Preparing Children for Reading Success: Hands-On Activities for Librarians, Educators, and Caregivers

Julia Irwin; Dina Moore

doi:10.5771/9780810892545

Summary

Preparing Children for Reading Success: Hands-On Activities for Librarians, Educators, and Caregivers will not only familiarize anyone who reads to young children with the essentials of promoting early and emerging literacy, but also contains more than 25 ready-to-go activities that can be immediately used to foster this critical skill development.

Following a basic overview of preliteracy skills that prepare children for reading success, the book contains field-tested, proven activities that promote success in each of the following skill sets:

· Alphabet knowledge

· Print concepts

· Book handling skills

· Phonological sensitivity

· Expressive vocabulary

Each of the activities is described in detail and linked to a popular children’s book.

This is a must-have how-to for anyone interested in promoting emerging literacy.

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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/2014
Copyright year: 2014
ISBN-Print: 978-0-8108-9319-1
ISBN-Online: 978-0-8108-9254-5
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 106
Product type: Book Titles

1. CONTENTS No access
2. FOREWORD No access
3. PREFACE No access
4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS No access
5. INTRODUCTION No access
CHAPTER 1. THE IMPORTANCE OF READING No access Pages 1 - 10
CHAPTER 2. THE SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL BENEFITS OF READING No access Pages 11 - 20
CHAPTER 3. ALPHABET KNOWLEDGE No access Pages 21 - 30
CHAPTER 4. BOOK-HANDLING SKILLS AND CONCEPTS ABOUT PRINT No access Pages 31 - 40
CHAPTER 5. PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS No access Pages 41 - 58
CHAPTER 6. VOCABULARY No access Pages 59 - 74
CHAPTER 7. DECONTEXTUALIZED LANGUAGE No access Pages 75 - 86
CHAPTER 8. WRITING No access Pages 87 - 94
ONLINE RESOURCES RELATED TO EARLY LITERACY AND READING No access Pages 95 - 102
INDEX No access Pages 103 - 104
ABOUT THE AUTHORS No access Pages 105 - 106