Developing Literacy Skills in the Early Years : A Practical Guide

by Hilary White

• ISBN13: 9781412910231
• ISBN10: 1412910234
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-05-24
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd

Summary

Many young children need targeted support and encouragement to help develop their literacy skills. This book contains tried and tested activities to improve listening, verbal reasoning, and language skills in young children and shows you how to turn theory into fun, practical ideas for the classroom.The author shows how to link activities to the Early Learning Goals and the National Literacy Strategy and the book includes:Lesson activities using puppets, nursery rhymes, story boxes, and picture books Suggestions for using role-play Ideas for organizing your play setting to encourage literacy-related play Assessment guidelines Lists of resources A selection of photocopiable material

Table of Contents

How to Use this Book	1	(11)
The Setting	12	(8)
Organizing the setting	12	(6)
Working with groups	18	(2)
The Sounds of Language	20	(18)
Rhythm and rhyme	20	(6)
Initial sounds	26	(7)
Segmenting words	33	(5)
Matching Sound and Symbol	38	(17)
Introducing letters	38	(4)
Practising letters	42	(6)
Exploring letters	48	(3)
The alphabet	51	(4)
Becoming a Writer	55	(21)
Pre-writing activities	55	(3)
Handwriting	58	(4)
Content	62	(14)
Becoming a Reader	76	(15)
Reading in the environment	76	(2)
Reading activities: words	78	(7)
Reading activities: phrases and sentences	85	(6)
The Role of the Picture Book	91	(16)
Sharing picture books	91	(3)
Exploring picture books	94	(5)
Story structure	99	(8)
Planning and Recording	107	(18)
Planning for literacy in the early years setting	107	(3)
Meeting the Early Learning Goals	110	(1)
Assessment questions	110	(11)
Keeping records	121	(4)
References and Further Reading	125	(1)
Useful Addresses	126	(2)
Glossary	128	(2)
Index	130