Storybook Activities for Young Children
The Transdisciplinary Play-Based Curriculum

By Toni W. Linder, Ed.D., with invited contributors

With a school-year's worth of ready-to-use lessons, this curriculum provides teachers with story-related activities centered around themes like enjoying seasonal festivities, sharing emotions, making friends, understanding other cultures, and just having fun! Read, Play, and Learn!® includes the Teacher's Guide and two collections of modules linked to popular storybooks. It's an easy way for teachers to promote general development and boost cognitive, sensorimotor, communication/language, social, and emerging literacy skills.

Teacher's Guide
The Teacher's Guide provides guidance on how to encourage early learning and development by creating a literacy-rich environment for preschool and kindergarten children of all ability levels. The guide explains all the basics: how to arrange the classroom, organize the school day, teach children with varying levels of ability, and involve families in education. Best of all, the curriculum guide includes modifications so teachers can individualize instruction and capitalize on the unique strengths of every child. It offers background information on the importance of play and literature in early learning, provides an overview of developmental domains, and discusses what to expect at various levels of children's development.

Module Collections
The Module Collections are two handy sets of instructive modules that are linked to popular children's storybooks. Each individually bound module — now sold separately — offers 2 to 3 weeks worth of story-related activities and learning experiences for young children; a brief summary of the storybook; planning sheets; a list of materials needed for the activities; a list of key words and concepts; ideas for modifying the activities for children of varying ability levels; sample letters to help keep families informed of classroom activities; and an appendix of alternative storybooks, songs, fingerplays, and activities.

Collection 1 includes ideas and activities thematically linked to the Fall semester. One module is linked to each of these eight popular stories:

• The Kissing Hand, by Audrey Penn
  
  
• Somebody and the Three Blairs, by Marilyn Tolhurst
  
  
• Picking Apples & Pumpkins, by Amy and Richard Hutchings
  
  
• The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything, by Linda Williams
  
  
• The Knight and The Dragon, by Tomie dePaola
  
  
• Abiyoyo, by Pete Seeger
  
  
• Night Tree, by Eve Bunting
  
  
• The Snowy Day, by Ezra Jack Keats

Collection 2 offers activities and themes appropriate for the Spring semester. One module is linked to each of the following eight stories:

• A Porcupine Named Fluffy, by Helen Lester
  
  
• First Flight, by David McPhail
  
  
• Friends, by Helme Heine
  
  
• The Three Billy Goats Gruff, by Janet Stevens
  
  
• The Three Little Javelinas, by Susan Lowell
  
  
• Franklin Has a Sleepover, by Paulette Bourgeois and Brenda Clark
  
  
• The Rainbow Fish, by Marcus Pfister [Translated by J. Alison James]
  
  
• A Rainbow of Friends, by P.K. Hallinan

Professional development on this title is available through Brookes On Location!

Ordering Information

Collection 1
(8 Module Set)
ISBN 1-55766-401-3 / Saddle-stitched / 80 pages each
8-1/2 x 11 / 1999 / $99.00 / Stock# 4013

Individual Modules (storybooks not included)