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Irresistible Invitations: Early
Literacy Engagements for Preschool and Primary Children
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Description of Program: |
Objectives: |
Beginning Upon a Lap |
Sensitive and Meaningful Enculturation into the World of Books Positive feelings about books Brain Research related to Early Literacy (Looking, Focusing, Attending) "Parentese" and Interpretative Conversations |
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Does it Matter What We Read? |
Picture Books and Poems Writing for children versus Writing for instruction Making School Stories Familiar Stories - Patterned Language Role of rhythm and rhyme Alliteration - repetition of phonemes |
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Songs
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Songs and Family Stories Music and Memory Refrains/Repeated Lines- Predictability Funds of Knowledge (Moll) |
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Funds of Knowledge
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Home - Community Literacy |
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Enriched Play = Authentic Literacy Events |
Fingerplays and Other Kinesthetic Participation (puppets) Play as literacy engagement Fine and gross motor skill development |
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Roles for Siblings, More Proficienct Peers |
Cross-age Tutors ZPD with Peers (Vygotsky)
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Reading Pictures |
Artists and Art Visual Literacy Reading Illustrations |
Jane Kurtz: |
Text-to-Text Connections |
Canon of Children's Literature Author Studies Intertextual Connections
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Planting the Literacy "Seed" |
Modeling as Seed Planting
Enriching the Curriculum through Literature |
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Growing as Literate People |
Complexity and Uniqueness
of Literacy Development |
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updated: 6 February 2006 |