Every Child Ready to Read: Literacy Tips for Parents - Softcover

The Lee Pesky Learning Center

 
9780345470676: Every Child Ready to Read: Literacy Tips for Parents
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0345470672 ISBN 13: 9780345470676
Verlag: Ballantine Books, 2004

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All parents want their children to read well and to succeed–and experts agree that improving literacy begins at birth. Reading aloud to your child, sharing simple games and wordplay, and developing letter knowledge start your child off on the right foot for school and life. Now the esteemed Lee Pesky Learning Center has created this easy, accessible reference for parents to help foster better literacy skills in children. Topics are individually tailored for three age ranges–infant, toddler, and preschool–and include

• the best read-aloud books to develop sound awareness
• the perfect picture books for encouraging letter knowledge
• ways to promote verbal language and build vocabulary
• the benefits of symbolic play
• fun (and educational) games for car trips
• helping youngsters “write” at home
• great gift ideas for kids
• warning signs of a learning disability

The fundamentals of reading start at home. Every Child Ready to Read helps parents motivate their children to learn, and to become confident readers who will always enjoy reading.

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The Lee Pesky Learning Center is a nonprofit, educational organization specializing in helping individuals with learning disabilities. The center is based in Boise, Idaho. Visit the Lee Pesky Learning Center at www.LPLearningCenter.org.

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Chapter 1

Infants

Birth to Eighteen Months

Readers aren't born, they're made.

Desire is planted-planted by parents who work at it.

-Jim Trelease

For children from birth to eighteen months, parents help build a solid foundation for future learning simply by cuddling and rocking their babies and singing and cooing to them. From birth on, infants are connected to human beings and prefer looking at faces over anything else in their environment. Babies respond joyfully to the sound of the human voice and love to hear "parent-ese." Experts in brain research stress that touch helps to build a baby's brain. Babies love to feel gentle touches on the arms, legs, tummy, and face. They notice and imitate facial expressions at just a few months of age. Begin talking to babies the moment they are born, listen to them babble and coo, and imitate the sounds they produce.

While children develop at somewhat different rates, experts offer overall milestones regarding literacy development. By twelve months, most children will sit on a parent's lap to share a book, reach for a nearby book, enjoy looking at pictures, and turn pages in board books with help from an adult.

By eighteen months, typically a child can hold a book with help, turn pages in a board book (usually several at a time), turn a book right side up, point to favorite pictures, and point to a picture of a familiar object when it's named. Children this age often carry a book to an adult, indicating they'd like to have it read.

Activities to Promote Oral Language and Vocabulary

*Carry on "conversations" with infants. Notice how they listen and respond during pauses. Show lots of facial expression, especially smiles, while playing with infants.

*Show babies items in their environment and name them. Name and talk about the cat, blanket, chair, and rug. This helps children to learn that everything has a name.

*Speak "parent-ese," talking with exaggerated changes in pitch and stretching out words.

*Play the bag game. Put six to eight small toys or household objects (larger than two to three inches to avoid choking potential) in a container. Try things like toy cars, wooden spoons, measuring spoons, and coasters. Allow your baby to pull items out and explore them. Tell her the name of the object and join in the play. Describe an action such as "I am putting the red coaster under the car."

Always follow your baby's lead, and don't force an activity. If your baby grows tired of a game, choose another one or stop for the time being.

Traditional Games

*Pat-a-cake and peekaboo may seem like simple games, but brain researchers tell us that babies are learning a lot when they play them. Games are very important for wiring the brain; they promote cognitive growth by strengthening and making brain-cell connections.

*The most common way to play peekaboo is to cover your face with your hands and take them away, saying "Peekaboo, I see you!"

*You can also hold a blanket up between you and the baby, peeking out around the edge or dropping the top, and saying the magic words.

*Once they sit up, some babies like to have a small blanket tossed over their head so they can take it off to peek at you.

*To teach pat-a-cake, put your baby on your lap, hold his hands, and gently guide him through the actions as you recite the poem. He will enjoy showing off the new skill as the days go by. Here is one version of the rhyme:

Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man

(Clap baby's hands gently together)

Bake me a cake as fast as you can

(Clap to the beat)

Roll it and pat it

(Roll hands, then pat the baby's stomach)

And mark it with a B

(Draw a B on baby's stomach)

And put it in the oven for baby and me

(Point to baby and to self)

Have fun. Remember that babies and young children learn through play.

Activities to Promote Your Child's Awareness of the Sounds of Language

*Encourage any activity that plays with sounds. Play peekaboo using scarves, puppets, or objects in bags. Vary the sounds you make as you say "peekaboo": "ah," "oo," "ee."

*Notice and imitate the rhythm of your baby's cooing.

*Create original verses about your baby's actions and set them to traditional tunes. For example, substitute "Here We Go to Grandmother's House" for "Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush," or "Are You Crawling?" for "Are You Sleeping?"

*Choose one or two rhymes to croon to your baby before bedtime. She will begin to associate that rhyme with getting sleepy.

Recommended Nursery Rhyme and Fingerplay Books

A book of nursery rhymes makes an ideal baby-shower gift, ensuring that parents will have something to read to their newborn, moving straight into the habit of reading aloud. Nursery rhymes-often called Mother Goose rhymes-have been around for hundreds of years and suit young children perfectly thanks to their brevity and irresistible rhythms. Even if you don't remember any from your childhood, you'll soon memorize some of these quick verses and can use them to entertain your child at any time of day. The following list suggests some wonderful collections as well as some single rhymes illustrated with inviting pictures.

Some rhymes, dubbed fingerplays, have finger, hand, or body movements that go with them. While you might already know pat-a-cake or "This Little Piggy," collections on this list will give you new ideas and lead to new favorites. Start by performing the fingerplays for your infant and note the delight on his face. Then, as he gets a bit older, your toddler will naturally join in the words and movements.

Beaton, Clare. Mother Goose Remembers.

Stunning cloth art illustrates this charming collection of forty six familiar nursery rhymes, which makes a great

baby-shower gift.

Baker, Keith. Big Fat Hen.

A lot happens in the engaging pictures of hens and a barnyard, set to the words and rhythms of a familiar nursery rhyme, which opens, "one, two, buckle my shoe."

Brown, Marc. Finger Rhymes.

This attractive collection gives the words and actions for fingerplays, some that may be familiar and others less well known. Look also for Brown's Hand Rhymes and Play Rhymes.

Cousins, Lucy. Humpty Dumpty and Other Nursery Rhymes.

A sturdy, brightly colored board book with several well-chosen nursery rhymes.

Cole, Joanna, and Stephanie Calmenson, compilers. Pat-a-Cake and Other Play Rhymes. Illustrated by Alan Tiegreen.

Here's a valuable cornucopia of interactive rhymes, including fingerplays, bouncing rhymes, tickling rhymes, and more.

dePaola, Tomie. Tomie dePaola's Mother Goose.

This large collection brings together more than two hundred traditional rhymes, accompanied by tidy illustrations in delicious colors.

Dunn, Opal. Hippety-Hop Hippety-Hay: Growing with Rhymes from Birth to Age Three. Illustrated by Sally Anne Lambert.

Another fine collection, this also tells new parents what to expect at different ages in terms of listening and language acquisition.

Manning, Jane. My First Baby Games.

This handy little book offers seven time-tested rhymes perfect for chanting to infants while performing the matching movements.

Opie, Iona, editor. My Very First Mother Goose. Illustrated by Rosemary Wells.

A gem among Mother Goose books, this oversized collection offers page after page of charming illustrations. A wonderful baby shower gift that will delight a child for years.

Westcott, Nadine Bernard, adapter. The Lady with the Alligator Purse.

Read this bouncing rhyme to your baby-or to an older child. Nobody...

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Verlag
Ballantine Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0345470672
ISBN 13 
9780345470676
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
96
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