Ready for Reading : A Handbook for Parents of Preschoolers

by Bishop, Ashley; Yopp, Ruth Helen; Bay-Williams, Jennifer M.

• ISBN13: 9780205287918
• ISBN10: 0205287913
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-07-19
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

This is an introduction to parents and caregivers to over 400 books and 400 poems arranged in 60 book-sharing activities. Parents are provided with more than a year's worth of books and poems to use with children! Each activity features one outstanding children's book and presents parents with strategies for guiding their children through the book in ways that promote enjoyment and learning. In addition to the featured book there are six additional books and seven poems recommended (in essence, a week's worth of reading). These all center around a theme associated with the featured book; for example, when "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs" is introduced, the following poems are about food and/or the weather. This book is truly a handbook, designed to give parents and their children success with formal reading instruction.

Author Biography

Dr. Ashley Bishop is a Professor of Elementary, Bilingual, and Reading Education at California State University, Fullerton. His major research interest is the development of balanced reading programs; specifically, programs that produce students who have personalized the "logic of the code" and use this code as they actively read fine literature.

Dr. Ruth Helen Yopp is a Professor of Elementary, Bilingual, and Reading Education at California State University, Fullerton. Her primary area of interest and expertise is the teaching of reading to young children.

Dr. Hallie Kay Yopp is a Professor of Elementary, Bilingual, and Reading Education at California State University, Fullerton. As a mother of two young children and former primary grade teacher, Dr. Yopp brings a practical perspective to her research and writing and is in high demand as a speaker.

Table of Contents

I. READY FOR READING.

1. Learning to Read Begins at Home.

2. What Is Reading?

3. Working with a Symbol System.

4. Selecting and Sharing Children's Literature.

II. A YEAR'S WORTH OF READING.

The Book-Sharing Experience.
Book Share 1 The Napping House.
Book Share 2 We're Going on a Bear Hunt.
Book Share 3 Green Eggs and Ham.
Book Share 4 Goodnight Moon.
Book Share 5 A Was Once an Apple Pie.
Book Share 6 Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.
Book Share 7 One Zillion Valentines.
Book Share 8 Is Your Mama a Llama?
Book Share 9 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.
Book Share10 Bearsie Bear and the Surprise Sleepover.
Book Share 11 Black and White Rabbit's ABC.
Book Share 12 Seven Blind Mice.
Book Share 13 The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
Book Share 14 How a Seed Grows.
Book Share 15 The Carrot Seed.
Book Share 16 Alphabet City.
Book Share 17 An Egg Is an Egg.
Book Share 18 If you Give a Mouse a Cookie.
Book Share 19 A Is for Artist: A Getty Museum Alphabet.
Book Share 20 What Do You Do with a Kangaroo?
Book Share 21 Corduroy.
Book Share 22 Stone Soup.
Book Share 23 Christina Katerina & The Box
Book Share 24 Tikki Tikki Tembo.
Book Share 25 In the Small, Small Pond.
Book Share 26 The Icky Bug Alphabet Book.
Book Share 27 Cock-a-Doodle-Moo.
Book Share 28 Everybody Needs a Rock.
Book Share 29 26 Letters and 99 Cents.
Book Share 30 Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Book Share 31 Over in the Meadow.
Book Share 32 Albert's Alphabet.
Book Share 33 Sam and the Firefly.
Book Share 34 May I Bring a Friend?
Book Share 35 Rain Talk.
Book Share 36 Someone Special, Just Like You.
Book Share 37 Amazon Alphabet.
Book Share 38 The Hungry Thing.
Book Share 39 Five Little Monkey Sitting in a Tree.
Book Share 40 Ten Cats Have Hats.
Book Share 41 The Monster Books of ABC Sounds.
Book Share 42 The Fox Went Out on a Chilly Night.
Book Share 43 Clifford's Halloween.
Book Share 44 Owl Moon.
Book Share 45 A You're Adorable.
Book Share 46 Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.
Book Share 47 Each Peach Pear Plum.
Book Share 48 There's a Wocket in My Pocket.
Book Share 49 Eight Days of Hanukkah.
Book Share 50 K is for Kwanza.
Book Share 51 Chicken Soup with Rice.
Book Share 52 The Polar Express.
Book Share 53 Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten.
Book Share 54 This Is the Way We Go to School.
Book Share 55 A Birthday for Frances.
Book Share 56 The Berenstein Bear's Moving Day.
Book Share 57 Curious George Goes to the Hospital.
Book Share 58The New Baby.
Book Share 59 Ira Sleeps Over.
Book Share 60 Who Wants Arthur?

References for Book Share Featured and Recommended Children's Books.

Book Share Literacy Focus Index.

Book Share Theme Index.

Book Share Materials Index.

General Index.