Literacy Learning
"Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence."
-- Abigail Adams
-- Abigail Adams
Bring Books to Life
When we read we make text to text, text to world and text to self connections. How can we help our kids make those same connections with their limited background knowledge?
The first best text connection is real life experience, such as visiting a place you read about, a real apple or cooking about something you read in a book.
The second is a physical representation, such as a plastic apple, or a dramatic play area of a fire station.
The third is a picture.
Toddlers and Preschoolers are learning language for the first time. What better opportunity to experience and learn these things than together with our families, all the while creating memories that will last all of their lives.
The first best text connection is real life experience, such as visiting a place you read about, a real apple or cooking about something you read in a book.
The second is a physical representation, such as a plastic apple, or a dramatic play area of a fire station.
The third is a picture.
Toddlers and Preschoolers are learning language for the first time. What better opportunity to experience and learn these things than together with our families, all the while creating memories that will last all of their lives.
Some Text Connections:
Puppets
Hand Puppets, Finger Puppets, Flannel Board Stories
Author Studies
Read different books by the same author and compare them with your child. Some great authors to do this with include:
Eric Carle
Laura Numeroff
Doreen Cronin
Susan Lowell
Animal Studies
Cows, Chickens, Horses, Dolphins, Elephants, Zebras, Frogs...any animals the children are interested in. Some ideas include: Grab several non-fiction and fiction books on the same topic and then visit the zoo, a farm, a pet store. Create a habitat for that animal using plastic animals. Have a sampling day where you sample foods that come from that animal, if they are one that give us food. Compare and contrast zebras and horses using a comparison chart.
Activity Connections
Great books to do this with include:
Laura Numeroff
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
read it when you make cookies
If You Give a Moose a Muffin
read it when you make muffins
If you give a Pig a Pancake
read it when you make pancakes
Farm Books (including animals and tractors)
Visit a farm or the zoo, set up plastic farm animals in the block area
Construction Books
Visit construction job sites in the neighborhood, set up the block area with construction trucks and tractors
Read different books by the same author and compare them with your child. Some great authors to do this with include:
Eric Carle
Laura Numeroff
Doreen Cronin
Susan Lowell
Animal Studies
Cows, Chickens, Horses, Dolphins, Elephants, Zebras, Frogs...any animals the children are interested in. Some ideas include: Grab several non-fiction and fiction books on the same topic and then visit the zoo, a farm, a pet store. Create a habitat for that animal using plastic animals. Have a sampling day where you sample foods that come from that animal, if they are one that give us food. Compare and contrast zebras and horses using a comparison chart.
Activity Connections
Great books to do this with include:
Laura Numeroff
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
read it when you make cookies
If You Give a Moose a Muffin
read it when you make muffins
If you give a Pig a Pancake
read it when you make pancakes
Farm Books (including animals and tractors)
Visit a farm or the zoo, set up plastic farm animals in the block area
Construction Books
Visit construction job sites in the neighborhood, set up the block area with construction trucks and tractors