Read, rhyme, and romp : early literacy skills and activities for librarians, teachers, and parents / Heather McNeil.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Santa Barbara, Calif. : Libraries Unlimited, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: x, 226 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781598849561
- 1598849565
- Children's libraries -- Activity programs -- United States
- Libraries and preschool children -- United States
- Reading -- Parent participation -- United States
- Children -- Books and reading -- United States
- Reading (Early childhood) -- United States
- Reading promotion -- United States
- Children's literature -- Bibliography
- Best books -- United States
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Parent/Teacher Resource Collection-Children's | 027.625 M169 | Available | 33111008586766 | |||||
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Main Library | Parent/Teacher Resource Collection-Children's | Please Ask at Children's Desk | 027.625 M169 | Available | 33111008875938 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Designed to promote literacy in young children and to empower parents, educators, and librarians, this guide is filled with simple strategies, creative activities, and detailed instructions that help make reading fun.
Encouraging a love of reading in young children can be a source of both great frustration and immense joy. This handy resource provides essential tips, techniques, and strategies for making early literacy development fun and inspiring a lifelong love of reading.
Read, Rhyme, and Romp: Early Literacy Skills and Activities for Librarians, Teachers, and Parents explores the six basic pre-literacy skills that experts agree are necessary for a young child to be ready to learn to read. Special sections within each chapter are dedicated to the specific needs of preschool teachers, parents, and librarians, making the content relevant to different settings. Recommended book lists, personal anecdotes, and literacy-rich activities combine to create an effective and accessible plan for implementing an early literacy program.
"Read, Rhyme, and Romp: Early Literacy Skills and Activities for Librarians, Teachers, and Parents explores the six basic pre-literacy skills that experts agree are necessary for a young child to be ready to learn to read. Special sections within each chapter are dedicated to the specific needs of preschool teachers, parents, and librarians, making the content relevant to different settings. Recommended book lists, personal anecdotes, and literacy-rich activities combine to create an effective and accessible plan for implementing an early literacy program"--Page 4 of cover.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
I found just what I wanted! : begin with books -- Wow! words! : learning language -- Print has purpose -- Boobooshots and other stories of stories -- Sing a song, rhyme a rhyme -- B is buh and other alphabet discoveries -- It's story time! -- What's so important about reading aloud: what the research tells us -- Read more, learn more: print resources, websites, and early literacy programs -- A parent, two teachers, and a librarian: thoughts about early literacy.