Early Literacy Tips
Supporting Early Childhood Programs, Issue 3
Building the future one word at a time
Expanding Children's Vocabulary, Essential Practice #3
Interactive Read Alouds with Attention to Vocabulary
The more you read to children, the larger vocabulary they will develop. Preschool children learn new words by:
- Hearing a word over and over and repeating the word
- Hearing a child-friendly definition of the word
- Hearing words spoken by the people in their lives
- Hearing words during conversations, playing & reading
NAEYC supports literacy content
NAEYC: Support the use of essential early literacy teaching strategies
Teach children to:
• Name & write alphabet letters
• Hear rhymes & sounds in words
• Spell simple words
• Recognize & write their own names
• New words from stories, work, & play
• Listen to stories for meaning
• Understand what reading & writing can do
Play with Sounds inside Words-Hearing
The degree of phonemic awareness that the child has developed upon entry into school is widely held to be the strongest single determinant of the child's reading success. Nursery rhymes, books, and songs are great springboards for teaching phonological and phonemic awareness. FREE PRINTABLES of nursery rhymes on Prekinders blog.
Llama, Llama Red Pajama
Llama Llama Red Pajama. (Click)
This infectious rhyming read-aloud, Baby Llama turns bedtime into an all-out llama drama!
The Snowy Day
The Snowy Day. (Click)
One morning many years ago, a little boy in Brooklyn named Peter woke up to an amazing sight: fresh snow.
There was a lady
Book Nooks for Babies
NAEYC: Creating Book Nooks for babies
- standing some books up on the floor
- laying other books nearby
- low traffic area
- a corner of the room will serve best
- the area is covered with carpeting or a rug
- make sitting comfortable
More on Flint Kids Read
THIS MONTH in FLINT ... Supported Phonological Awareness as a focus
- 49 classrooms participated in coaching
- 71 classrooms participated in monthly PD
- Supported Dolly Parton's Imagination Library
- Developed literacy activities for family events
- Supported literacy for ages 0-5 for community agencies
If you are interested in Flint Kids Read staff supporting your program/community event with a literacy activity or training please contact Michelle McQueen at mmcqueen@geneseeisd.org
Free Resources for instructional staff
Michelle McQueen
Email: mmcqueen@geneseeisd.org
Website: http://www.geneseeisd.org/
Location: Genesee Intermediate Sch District, 3375 Van Campen Road, Flint, MI, United States
Phone: (810) 922-1707