Teachers can use a collection of cereal boxes and take-out menus as essential literacy tools! The activities in Everyday Literacy integrate environmental print--words, letters, and symbols found in everyday life--into a curriculum that makes it easy to encourage children?s literacy every day. Young children develop literacy through direct involvement in meaningful experiences with print. Everyday Literacy provides hands-on ideas for turning newspapers, signs and signals in the community, and catalogs and magazines into literacy experiences. \n\nKey features of this book include:\n\n\nLiteracy goals to show how concepts of print, letters, and words can be integrated throughout the curriculum. \n250 activities to practice developing literacy skills, including writing, comprehension, rhyming words, print awareness, sight word recognition, vocabulary understanding, and letter and letter sound recognition. Activities for making books using environmental print, such as ?Seed Packet Pocket Books,? a book whose pages children create from seed packet labels. \nLiteracy games, dramatic play materials, building equipment, and interactive bulletin boards. Activities that integrate print into math and science curriculum, such as, ?Shopping Bag Addition? and ?The Word World of Magnets.? Activities in art, fine motor, and music and movement, such as, ?Box Front Weaving,? ?My Name in Lights,? and ?Cereal Box Hop Scotch.? \nTake-home activities and field trips to places in the community. \nAn appendix with reproducible forms and patterns that can be used in the activities, a checklist of environmental print ideas, and list of children?s books that include references to environmental print.
Everyday Literacy: Environmental Print Activities for Young Children Ages 3-8 FROM THE PUBLISHER Everyday Literacy provides hands-on ideas for turning newspapers, signs, menus, catalogs, magazines, and other everyday items into literacy experiences. Each activity has a brief description, learning objectives, theme connections, materials, and literacy interactions. There are activities for different curriculum areas, such as art, science, math, fine motor, and music and movement, as well as take-home activities and ideas for field trips. The easy-to-use appendix has reproducible forms, a checklist of environmental print ideas, and a list of children's books that support the use of environmental print. The activities can be used to introduce a concept or practice an existing skill. This book is perfect for teachers of preschool, kindergarten, and early elementary children.
FROM THE CRITICS Children's Literature - Joyce Rice
Teachers in preschool and elementary schools will welcome this compendium of activities introducing the environment to young children. Each of the ten chapters presents activities that will teach environmental studies within different curriculum areas including science, math, drama and reading. Each of the 150 activities has been set up with objectives to be met, preparation and materials needed, and connection to a theme. The supplementary pages offer an index and reproducible pages. Each activity is complete on 1 to 2 pages and uses everyday materials such as cereal boxes, newspapers, menus and catalogs. This is a great resource for the elementary media center professional collection, as well as the elementary science and math classroom. 2005, Gryphon House Publishers, Ages Adult.
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