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Ladders to Literacy
A Kindergarten Activity Book, Second Edition
By Rollanda E. O'Connor, Ph.D., Angela Notari-Syverson, Ph.D., & Patricia F. Vadasy, Ph.D.


Praise for the first edition:

“The theoretical information and the activities are invaluable.” —ECRI-CLAS (Early Childhood Research Institute on Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services)


Help the children in your school or district become successful early readers with the second edition of this field-tested, activity-based curriculum, an effective way to supplement children’s instruction without giving up current language arts programming. This book gives teachers more than 60 culturally sensitive, developmentally appropriate activities that were tested for 10 years under research and practical conditions. Activities are organized into three sections emphasizing key elements of reading success: print awareness, metalinguistic skills, and oral language skills. Modifications are included for children with disabilities, and the early literacy activities for children and parents help strengthen the home–school literacy link.

Revised in response to ongoing field testing and research, the new edition of this popular activity book retains the first edition’s focus on preacademic language and literacy skills and gives teachers practical updates and timely new material. Teachers will get
  • a new, two-part literacy assessment

  • a sample record sheet for tracking children’s progress

  • 11 new activities

  • more explicit teaching instructions

  • helpful Tips for Teachers

  • updated research

With the fun, proven activities in this book, kindergarten teachers will equip children with the emergent literacy skills they’ll need to succeed in school.


Ladders to Literacy: A Kindergarten Activity Book, Second Edition

ORDERING INFO
ISBN 1-55766-832-9
Paperback
352 pages /
8 ½ x 11
2005 / $49.95
Stock# 8329


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Table of Contents


About the Authors
Foreword
Joseph R. Jenkins

Acknowledgments


I: Theoretical Framework for Early Literacy

  1. The Development of Early Literacy
  2. The Role of Scaffolding
  3. Implementing Ladders to Literacy
  4. Measuring Early Literacy Skills

II: Print Awareness

Shared Storybook Reading with Finger Pointing
Snack/Lunch Treat Menu
Letters and Sounds
Following Recipes
Morning/Afternoon Message and News
I Found . . .
Fill in the Blanks
Making Books
Cumulative Letter Knowledge
Photography
Sorting Objects
Pocket Children
Science Projects
Long Jump
My First Journal
Writing Words 
Classroom Post Office
Landscapes and Maps
Blend It Back
The Transition to Reading Words
Segment-to-Spell

III: Phonological Awareness

Rhythmic Activities
Listening to Songs
Clap the Syllables
Sound Isolation
Blending Stretched Sounds
Nursery Rhymes
Rhyming Pictures
Rhyming Triplets
Stop On A First Sound-Stretched Segmenting
Stop On A First Sound-Iteration
Pretend Play with Miniature Toys
First Sound Song
Guess the Word (Blending)
I’m Thinking of a . . . (Blending by Category)
Word to Word Matching Game: First Sound/Last Sound
Sing a First Sound
First Sound (Last Sound) Bingo
Segmenting with Onset-Rime Boxes
Stop On A Last Sound
Segmenting into Three Phonemes
Where Is It?
Onset-Rime with First Letter

IV: Oral Language

Show and Tell
Food Talk
Power Words
Enacting Storybooks
What Did You Hear?
Portraits
Feeling Objects
From This to That
Treasure Boxes
Book Review/Story Grammar
Book Buddy
Interviews
Movie Reviews
Foreign Languages: Let’s Say it Another Way!
Special Words
My Dream
Brainstorming
Let’s Find Out!

Bibliography
Appendix A: Blank Forms
Appendix B: Early Literacy Activities for Children and Parents
Parents' Guide to Literacy Activities
Appendix C: Glossary
Index



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