Teachers Talking about Literacy in Their Kindergarten
Classes
Video is about 30 minutes: With Sharon, Bonnie Angela and
Jonna—mentor teachers.
Lots of wonderful do-able ideas about early literacy
Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Monday, September 14, 2015
A Language Rich Preschool Classroom?
A short excerpt
◆ Do children at
your preschool have strong language and literacy skills?
◆ Do children with
language disabilities participate in general preschool classrooms?
◆ Do educators at
your school collaborate in language-rich curriculums?
◆ Do you have
sufficient funding for a quality preschool program? These are broad, ambitious
questions,
and we hope to set you on
your way to answering them and ensuring the success of all the children in your
preschool program.
What Does the Literature Say
About Language-Rich Classrooms
Deliberateness
Recurrence
High quality input
Adult responsiveness
Wednesday, September 9, 2015
Conversation and Reading
Dr. Perri Klass
on family health.
A short excerpt
“A little more than a year ago, the American
Academy of Pediatrics issued a policy statement
saying that all pediatric primary care should include literacy promotion,
starting at birth.
That means pediatricians taking care of infants
and toddlers should routinely be advising parents
about how important it is to read to even very young children. The policy
statement, which I wrote with Dr. Pamela C. High, included a review of the
extensive research on the links between growing up with books and reading
aloud, and later language development and school success”
Dialogic Reading:
A short excerpt:
“Dialogic reading works. Children who have been read to
dialogically are substantially ahead of children who have been read to
traditionally on tests of language development. Children can jump ahead by
several months in just a few weeks of dialogic reading. From Reading Rockets
Over a third of children in the U.S.
enter school unprepared to learn. They lack the vocabulary, sentence structure,
and other basic skills that are required to do well in school. Children who
start behind generally stay behind – they drop out, they turn off. Their lives
are at risk.
Why are so many children deficient in
the skills that are critical to school readiness?
Children's experience with books plays
an important role. Many children enter school with thousands of hours of
experience with books. Their homes contain hundreds of picture books. They see
their parents and brothers and sisters reading for pleasure. Other children
enter school with fewer than 25 hours of shared book reading. There are few if
any children's books in their homes. Their parents and siblings aren't readers….”
Some video examples of Dialogic Reading
One with One Reading: “Machines at Work”
Small Group Reading: “Something
From Nothing”
Reading stories to 2
and 3 year olds: “Goodnight Gorilla”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItXkgCE8F4c (6 Minutes)
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