Every Child Ready to Read @ Your Library®

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Every Child Ready to Read _at_ Your Library
Early Literacy WorkshopFor Newborn to
Two-Year-Olds
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For the Presenter

• This powerpoint presentation has been developed
  to serve two purposes
• To help you, the presenter in developing your
  presentation, to see how it flows
• To use with participants in your workshop if you
  feel it is appropriate.
• In some settings a powerpoint presentation can
  be overwhelming or
• off-putting. Know your group use your judgment.
• You are encouraged to change examples of books
  and rhymes to ones that illustrate the point and
  are comfortable to you.
• note to presenter
• Supplemental Information noted in the Notes
  Area of the presentation. Youll find additional
  ideas and information which you may include if
  you have time, or if the participants show
  particular interest in that area.
• Supplemental slides can be hidden. Then they will
  not be seen during the presentation, but remain
  in the file.

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Materials Needed

• Equipment
• VCR
• Computer and Projector (optional)
• Overhead (optional)
• Flipchart or something to record responses
• Video
• Born to Succeed (12 minutes)
• La llave del éxito (10 minutes)
• Order from Early Childhood Resources
• Multnomah County Public Library
• 205 NE Russell Street
• Portland, OR 97212
• Phone [phone] Fax [phone]
• www.multcolib.org/about/mcl-ecrvideos.html
• OR
• Ready to Learn (available English and Spanish)
• Order from I AM YOUR CHILD
• P. O. BOX 811246

• Handouts
• Every Child Ready to Read Parent Guide to Early
  LiteracyNewborn to Two Years
• Five Easy Steps for Sharing Books with
• Your Baby
• Right From Birth
• Rethinking the Brain (S)
• Bibliography on Early Literacy (optional)
• Handouts on your library services/programs
• Posters/Powerpoint (optional)
• Definition of Early Literacy
• Definition of each skill poster
• Materials
• Opening rhyme
• Eensy Weensy Spider and Little Flea (Wee Sing
  for Babies) or other rhymes for Phonological
  Awareness
• Black on White or White on Black by Tana Hoban
  (S)
• Baby Duck board book or other for example
• Alphabet books for young children

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Peek a Boo Song (tune of Frere
Jaques) Peekaboo! Peekaboo (Cover your face
with hands) I see you! I see you! (Open hands to
uncover face) I see your button nose. (Point
to your nose or childs nose) I see your tiny
toes. (Point to childs feet) I see you!
Peekaboo! (Cover and uncover face with
hands)
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YOU are your childs first teacher

• Children begin to get ready to read long before
  they start school.
• You know your children best.
• Children learn best by doing things, and love to
  do things with YOU.
• Young children often have short attention spans
  and enjoy repeating favorite activities.
• YOU know your children well and can take
  advantage of times when the child is in the
  mood, ready to learn.
• When children see their parents reading they are
  more likely to become readers themselves. Seeing
  you reading is very powerful!

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What Do Babies and Toddlers Do?
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Supplemental Information
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Synaptic Density
From Rethinking the Brain New Insights into
Early Development by Rima Shore (NY Families and
Work Institute, 1997) Synaptic Density Synapses
are created with astonishing speed in the first
three years of life. For the rest of the first
decade, childrens brains have twice as many
synapses as adults brains. (Drawing supplied by
H.T. Chugani)
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Permission to use for PLA?ALSC Early Literacy
Project granted by Dr. Harry Chugani
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Rethinking the Brain
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WHAT IS EARLY LITERACY?
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EARLY LITERACY

• Early literacy is what children know about
  reading and writing before they can actually read
  or write.

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SIX SKILLS TO GET READY TO READ

• Print Motivation
• Phonological Awareness
• Vocabulary
• Narrative Skills
• Print Awareness
• Letter Knowledge

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• Print Motivation
• childs interest in and
• enjoyment of books
• Children who enjoy books
• and reading will read more. Children become
  good
• readers by practicing.

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Supplemental Information
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• Phonological Awareness
• the ability to hear and
• play with the smaller
• sounds in words
• helps children sound out
• words as they begin to
• read

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Language of Literacy Phoneme The smallest part
of spoken language that makes a difference in the
meaning of words. English has about 41 phonemes.
The word if has two phonemes (/i/ /f/). The
word check has three phonemes (/ch/ /e/ /ck/).
Sometimes one phoneme is represented by more than
one letter. Phonemic Awareness The ability to
hear, identify, and manipulate the individual
sounds (phonemes) in spoken words. Phonological
Awareness The understanding that spoken language
is made up of individual and separate sounds. A
broad term that includes phonemic awareness in
addition to work with rhymes, words, syllables,
and beginning sounds. Grapheme The smallest part
of written language that represents a phoneme in
the spelling of a word. A grapheme may be just
one letter, such as b, f, p, s, or several
letters such as ch, sh, ea, igh. Phonics The
understanding that there is a predictable
relationship between phonemes (the sounds of the
spoken language) and graphemes (the letters and
spellings that represent those sounds in written
language). Syllable A word part that contains a
vowel or, in spoken language, a vowel
sound. From Put Reading First The Research
Building Blocks for Teaching Children to Read,
U.S. Department of Education, 2001. Downloadable
at National Institute for Literacy www.nifl.gov
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• Vocabulary
• knowing the names of
• things
• helps children understand
• what they read
• helps children recognize
• words when they try to
• sound them out

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ALA granted permission from Janellen Huttenlocher.
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• Narrative Skills
• the ability to describe
• things and events, and to
• tell stories
• will help children understand
• what they read

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Supplemental Information
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• Print Awareness
• noticing print everywhere
• knowing how we follow the words
• on a page, knowing how
• to handle a book
• helps children feel
• comfortable with books
• so they can concentrate
• on reading

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• Letter Knowledge
• knowing that letters are different
• from each other, that they have
• different names and sounds
• helps children understand that
• words are made of smaller parts,
• and to know the names of those
• parts

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Six skills your child needs to learn to
read-- starting from birth!
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Five Easy Steps for Sharing Books With Your
Baby Pick the best time Choose a time when you
and your baby are in a good mood and ready to
enjoy each other. Show Baby the book Point to
the pictures, and talk naturally and
cheerfully. Talk and have fun Remember to touch
and love your baby the whole time. Watch what
Baby does Let your baby play with the book if he
wants to and stop for now if he gets
upset. Share a book with your baby every
day Even just a few minutes a day is important
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Infants Focusing on Patterns
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What books are good for this age? How do I
know what to choose?
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What books are good for this age?How do I know
what to choose?

• Thick study cover and pages
• Small size, for little hands
• Bright colorful pictures
• Simple geometric shapes
• Clear pictures
• Pictures of human faces
• Few words
• Nursery rhymes

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Have fun together!
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Supplemental Information