Every child ready to read @ your library

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Fun with Science Math for Parents and
Children
Insert the name of your library and/or your
librarys logo here.
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Reading is essential to school success. Start
now to help your childget ready to read.
Learning to read begins before children start
school.
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Goals for Todays Workshop

• Overview of the programs values ECRRs six
  pre-reading skills
• Review of best practices for building those
  skills
• Activity ideas and book recommends
• Tips for engaging children in early literacy
  activities
• New Orleans Public Library and community
  resources supporting early literacy

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Five Little Speckled Frogs

• Five Little Speckled Frogs
• (Hold five fingers (frogs) on top of your other
  arm (log))?Sat on a speckled log?Eating the most
  delicious flies.
• Yum! Yum! (pat tummy)
• One jumped into the pool
• (jump a finger off the log into the pool)?Where
  it was nice and cool?Now there are Four green
  speckled frogs (Hold up four fingers)
• Keep counting down until there are no more
  speckled frogs!

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Core Values of Program
You are your childs first teacher. You know
your child best. Children learn best by doing,
and they love doing things with you.
Why are parents so important in helpingtheir
children getready to read?
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Reading is essential to school success. Children
become ready to read between 4 and 7 years old,
but becoming ready to read starts at birth.
You are already doing activities to help your
child be ready to read.
Being ready to read begins before children start
school.
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Six Skills for Early Literacy

• Print Motivation - I Love Books
• Print Awareness - I See Words
• Phonological Awareness - I Hear Words and Sounds
• Narrative Skills - I Tell Stories
• Vocabulary - I Know Words
• Letter Knowledge - I Know My ABCs

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Five simple practices help children get ready to
read.
Help your child get ready to read with simple
activities every day.
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Why Science and Math? Learning about the world
helps children get ready to read. The whole of
science is nothing more than a refinement of
everyday thinking. Albert Einstein
Trussell-Cullen (1999) defines nonfiction as a
way to document and celebrate the real worldand
that means everything about the real world that
is actual, observable, recordable, demonstrable,
and experienceable (p. 2). Journal for the
Liberal Arts and Sciences 13(2), Spring 2009
Children can learn important knowledge about how
the world works through simple science and math
experiences.
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Learn About the World

• Lets explore nature!
• Question Do objects under a magnifying glass
  look bigger or smaller when you look through it?
  Do objects look bigger or smaller as you move
  closer and further away?
• Predict Before you look, make a guess. What
  does the word magnify mean?
• Experiment What happens to the object if you
  move your eye away from the magnifying glass?
  What happens if you move the glass up and down?
  What happens if you move far away from the object
• Observe Watch how the object appears as you move
  and as the glass moves.
• Conclusion What does a magnifying glass do???
  What does your eye do to objects as you move
  closer and further away???

• What is the scientific
• method?
• The scientific method is a
• way to ask and answer
• questions by making
• observations and doing
• experiments.
• What are the steps?
• 1. Ask a question.
• 2. Make a guess about
• the answer.
• 3. Do an experiment.
• 4. Make observations.
• 5. Draw conclusions.

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Start with questions.
Why can I see my breath when it is cold?
How do trees get a drink of water?

• Help your child learn how to learn.
• Encourage your child to ask questions.
• Talk about possible answers.
• Look for answers together talk, read, and
  write!

What is your question?
How much is one-half of something?
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Sing songs that play with science math
concepts. Lets sing Dem Bones
Math helps children talk and learn about objects
and ideas.
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Lets learn aboutbutterflies.

• Lets learn.
• 1. Look.
• 2. Talk.
• 3. Read.
• 4. Draw and write.

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Read Information or Factual Books
Research finding Children's experiences with
the world greatly influence their ability to
comprehend what they read. Reading involves
comprehending written texts. What children bring
to a text influences the understandings they take
away and the use they make of what is
read. Background knowledge about the world is
built from a child's experiences. The more
limited a child's experiences the more likely he
or she will have difficulty comprehending what is
read. Early Literacy Policy and Practice in the
Preschool Years By Dorothy Strickland and
Shannon Riley-Ayers www.readingrockets.org
Read about topics that your children find
especially interesting.
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Play around with math.
Use math to describe, compare,and draw
conclusions.
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More math adventures.
Lets have more fun with math!
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Math concepts are easy toinclude in everyday
conversation. How many are there?Which one is
the largest?Which one looks like a cone?Can you
put them in order from smallest to largest?
Help your child Count Measure Sort
Compare Order
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Explore the world with your children every day
Lets Play with Static Electricity

• Learn together by
• Exploring new ideas.
• Digging deeper.
• Asking questions.
• Experimenting.
• Drawing conclusions!

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• Make your home a learning zone!
• See Handout Fun Science
• Mixtures at Home

Your home can be a learning center to help your
child get readyto read.
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The New Orleans Public Library helps children get
ready to read.
We have weekly story hours at most branches.
Bring a friend to story hour.
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Come to future Every Child Ready to Read
classes for parents and children.

• Fun with Stories
• Fun with Words
• Fun with Letters

We also offer PrimeTime Family Reading Time, a
six-week literacy discussion program for
families with children ages 6 to 12.
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The New Orleans Public Library has been dedicated
to promoting reading since 1896.
ONLINE _at_ neworleanspubliclibrary.org Hours (vary
by location) Monday through Thursday 10 am to 7
pm Saturday 10 am to 5 pm Friday 10 am to 5 pm
Main Library, Central City Friday 9 am to 5 pm
King Branch
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