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Would you like targeted, fun classroom activities for working on specific literacy skills with your students in addition to Read, Play, and Learn!®? Try these 3 excellent, research-based activity books. All are available through Brookes Publishing (click the links below to order).
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Ladders to Literacy
A Preschool Activity Book
By Angela Notari-Syverson, Ph.D., Rollanda E. O'Connor, Ph.D., & Patricia F. Vadasy, M.P.H.
Ladders to Literacy is an innovative supplemental classroom curriculum that allows educators to address the needs of children with special needs or who are at risk for reading failure. The book offers more than 50 fun, field-tested activities to use with large groups of children on print awareness, metalinguistic, and oral language skills. Each activity provides scaffolding suggestions so educators can easily vary levels of demands and supports depending on a child's needs.
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Ladders to Literacy
A Kindergarten Activity Book
By Rollanda E. O'Connor, Ph.D., Angela Notari-Syverson, Ph.D., & Patricia F. Vadasy, M.P.H.
Like the preschool version, the kindergarten version of Ladders to Literacy offers more than 50 fun, field-tested activities to use with large groups of children on print awareness, metalinguistic, and oral language skills. Each activity provides scaffolding suggestions so educators can easily vary levels of demands and supports depending on a child's needs. The kindergarten version is designed for higher developmental levels, focusing on preacademic skills, early literacy development, and early reading development. Goals and scaffolding are more intense as children learn to recognize letters, match sounds with letters, and develop phonological awareness and the alphabetic principle.
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Phonemic Awareness in Young Children
A Classroom Curriculum
By Marilyn Jager Adams, Ph.D., Barbara R. Foorman, Ph.D., Ingvar Lundberg, Ph.D., & Terri Beeler, Ed.D.
Phonemic awareness is the first step in any child's journey to literacy, and more than 25% of all children don't master it by third grade. Specifically targeting phonemic awareness, this program helps young children learn to distinguish the individual sounds that make up words and affect their meanings in 15 to 20 minutes a day. With the unique screening method that accommodates up to 15 children at a time, educators can gauge the general skill level of the class and identify children who may need additional testing. And teachers can choose from a range of activities to use with the whole class—from simple listening games to more advanced sound manipulation exercises such as rhyming, alliteration, and segmentation. |
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