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For introductory courses in Early Childhood literacy.

To answer the question of what reading and writing activities are best for young children, a well-known early childhood author has joined forces with a literacy expert to explore the development of literacy in the preschool environment and its ongoing support through kindergarten. The results is a pragmatic, research-based text whose paradigm shift focuses future teachers on the use of “cultural characters” from picture books as the keys to an entire curriculum of literacy activities. Based on the latest theories of naturally emergent literacy, this text examines ways to create a literacy-friendly learning environment, using music and art as natural languages, and even strengthening finger muscles for writing through other hands-on activities.

• Three-part division of early literacy content—Emergent speaking, emergent writing, and emergent reading, with three chapters devoted to each.

  • Allows for discussion and use of music as a precursor to reading; art as an early stage in learning to write.

• Focus on multicultural picture books to integrate literacy into every learning area—93 engaging characters from 24 different cultures in 200 books.

  • Creates a world of interesting “people” and ideas that appeal to even the youngest children and helps fold support for literacy into play, art, music, cooking, math, blocks—every preschool and kindergarten activity.

• Learning Activities —Five at the end of each chapter.

  • Leads to in-class discussions and illustrate applications with both preschoolers and kindergartners.

• Topical Cultural Character Book index—Appendix B sorts the text's 200 referenced titles into 88 topic sections.

  • Helps students choose the books best suited to the children in their classrooms and day care centers.

• Checklists throughout chapters—Choosing books, creating a learning center, spoken language skills, and more.

  • Makes it easy to implement the text's approach in every facet of early literacy.

• Discussion of how reading is taught in kindergarten.

  • Bridges the gap between reading to preschoolers and children reading in first grade.

• Accomplishment Cards and curriculum webs—Novel ways to evaluate individual children's literacy gains included in every chapter.

  • Gives future teachers powerful tools for integrating “cultural education” into every curriculum arena.

• Appendix of children's books from Scholastic (Appendix A)—Includes sixty inexpensive paperback titles from the text.

  • Enables future teachers to build their own library of children's books at a reasonable cost.

I. INTRODUCTION.

II. EMERGENT SPEAKING.

III. EMERGENT WRITING.

IV. EMERGENT READING.

Emergent Literacy  (Reading & Literacy)

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  Early Literacy in Preschool and Kindergarten: A Multicultural Perspective, 2/E
  Beaty & Pratt
  ©2007 | Merrill | Paper; 384 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0132382954 | ISBN-13: 9780132382953
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  For introductory courses in Early Childhood literacy.

   

  A well-known early childhood author joins with a literacy expert to offer a brand new approach to early literacy in preschool, leading into kindergarten reading.  New research on how literacy emerges is put to use in chapters on setting up a literacy-friendly learning environment, music and art as natural languages, strengthening finger muscles for writing through 3-dimensional art, cooking, and woodworking, developing visual representational skills ( a la Reggio Emilia), developing the important "sense of story sequence" through role-plays, story reenactments, and flannel board stories. 

   

  Teachers are asked to make a paradigm shift in regard to their opinion of children's books as mere sources of entertainment.  This text uses picture books as keys to unlocking an entire curriculum of literacy activities, with cultural book characters like real children, leading preschool and kindergarten listeners into learning centers filled with exciting literacy activities for them to pursue on their own.  Emergent Literacy (child-initiated) and skill-based teaching (teacher-oriented) are discussed along with suggestions on how and when to use each. 

   

  A discussion of the new early childhood curriculum standards suggests ways to incorporate them in early childhood classrooms.

Janice J. Beaty, professor emerita, Elmira College, Elmira, New York, is a full-time writer of early childhood college textbooks and a consultant and trainer in early childhood education from her home in Taos, New Mexico. Some of her textbooks include Skills for Preschool Teachers (sixth edition), Observing Development of the Young Child (fifth edition), Building Bridges with Multicultural Picture Books, Prosocial Guidance for the Preschool Child, and Picture Book Storytelling. At present Dr. Beaty is involved in an early literacy mentoring program with Foster Grandparents in schools and Head Start in Central Missouri and with early literacy in Indian Head Start Programs in the Southwest.

Linda Pratt is the executive director of teache~ education and a professor of education at Elmira College. For over 20 years she has be , teaching both graduate and undergraduate courses in literacy education and has been directing the graduate program in teaching literacy, with her primary teaching interest being literacy acquisition and development. Dr. Pratt has given presentations on literacy in the United States as well as in Asia, the Bahamas and Caribbean, Canada, Europe, and South America. She and Dr. Beaty have also coauthored the textbook Transcultural Children's Literature (Merrill/Prentice Hall).

Allyn & Bacon Digital Media Archive CD-ROM for Education, 2001 Edition
Allyn & Bacon
©2001 | Merrill | CD-ROM Only | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205319602 | ISBN-13: 9780205319602
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CourseCompass (5.0) Instructor Quick Start Guide
Allyn & Bacon & Longman
©2007 | Merrill | Paper | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205531709 | ISBN-13: 9780205531707

Literacy Library Video B-Guided Reading
Reutzel
©2004 | Merrill | Video; 1 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0131123955 | ISBN-13: 9780131123953

Literacy Library, Video A, 10/E
Heilman, Blari & Rupley
©2002 | Merrill | Video | Instock
ISBN-10: 0130420875 | ISBN-13: 9780130420879

Literature Circles: Responding to Literature in an 8th Grade Classroom, 5/E
Tompkins
©2002 | Merrill | CD-ROM Only | Out of Stock
ISBN-10: 0130611670 | ISBN-13: 9780130611673

Primary Grades Literacy CD
Harris & Tompkins
©2006 | Merrill | CD-ROM Only | Instock
ISBN-10: 013172133X | ISBN-13: 9780131721333

Teaching Writing CD-ROM
Education
©2005 | Merrill | CD-ROM Only; 0 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0131175904 | ISBN-13: 9780131175907

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