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This digital document is an article from Reading Improvement, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2006. The length of the article is 3554 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Families and school personnel involved in a literacy and physical activity partnership.
Author: James A. Richardson
Publication: Reading Improvement (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 43Issue: 3Page: 129(7)

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This component of Animated Literacy develops early reading, writing, and oral language skills and strategies through rhymes, pattern songs, pattern stories, movement exploration, music, and manipulatives. ... Read more

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200 Instant Kid-Pleasing Activities That Build Early Reading and Writing Skills for Circle Time, Transition Time--or Any Time!
New ! Super-Fun Skill-Building Activities!
Teach reading, writing, science, and social studies--any time of the day! Kids will have a blast with these super-fun, super-quick activities that help build and reinforce essential skills in the different curriculum areas. Perfect for circle time, transition time, center time, and read-aloud time. ... Read more

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Wow! Full-color, ready-to-use art PLUS activities that are based on the latest research on literacy. Just cut out the pieces needed to create great-looking learning centers or fun-filled games. Follow the step-by-step directions, and watch the learning take place! 176 full-color pages. ... Read more

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This comprehensive collection of interactive learning activities (with free CD-ROM)is designed to develop key information literacy skills—determining the nature and extent of the information need; accessing information; evaluating information and sources; and adhering to ethical practices in the use of information. The included activities for over 20 instructional sessions support a variety of learning styles. All have been tested successfully with both secondary school and undergraduate college students, including ESL students. Exercises focus on the library catalog, search engines, databases, search strings, Boolean and advanced searching, and types of information. The organization is flexible allowing you to use the lessons in any order or any grouping that meets the needs of your students and situation. A particularly useful feature for instructors provides the expected or desired answer to discussion questions and exercises within square brackets. The package includes a CD-ROM with all of the activity materials and handouts included in Microsoft Word format for easy customization. ... Read more

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Each activity has been successfully tested
Hands-On Information Literacy Activities by Information Literacy Librarians Jane Birks and Fiona Hunt (working on the Dubai and Abu Dhabi campuses of Zayed University in the United Arab Emirates) is an impressively presented multimedia resource for high school and college librarians and teachers for instructing children and young adults on how to assess their information ;needs and address them with library catalogues, search engines, databases, search strings, Boolean and other advanced searching techniques. Each activity has been successfully tested with both secondary school and undergraduate college students. Ethical practices in the use of information is provided special attention. Enhanced with an accompanying CD-ROM containing all the activity materials and handouts in Microsoft Word for easy customization, Hands-On Information Literacy Activities is an enthusiastically recommended addition to Library Science and Education Department reference collections and supplemental reading lists. ... Read more

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Ladders to Literacy is an innovative supplemental classroom curriculumthat allows educators to address the needs of children who are at risk for reading failure - without giving up their current language programming. ... Read more

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A great resource!
This is a wonderful resource for teachers.A variety of activities are given for each goal.Ladders to Literacy provides activities that parents can do with their children at home, including parents who are on the go. ... Read more

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Using ideas and activities already tried and tested in the classroom, this book shows practitioners how imaginative drama lessons and activities can be used to help encourage and improve children's writing, speaking and listening skills.

Perfect for the person who might not be used to leading drama-based activities, this book takes a step-by step approach that will help even the most daunted teacher tackle drama with confidence. Also included are:

" ideas for suitable writing and drama activities;

" advice on lesson planning;

" list of useful resources;

" examples of children's work and teachers' comments.

Class teachers, teaching assistants, literacy consultants and drama and English co-ordinators looking for practical, fun drama activities to support literacy will find all the help they need in this book. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Reading Improvement, published by Project Innovation (Alabama) on December 22, 2004. The length of the article is 2992 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Providing minority parents with relevant literacy activities for their children.
Author: Brenda Gilliam
Publication: Reading Improvement (Refereed)
Date: December 22, 2004
Publisher: Project Innovation (Alabama)
Volume: 41Issue: 4Page: 226(9)

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Literacy Centers and Activities for Nursery Rhymes Vol. 2
I have actually used this volume more than Volume one so far.Since we start Kindergarten with colors, shapes, names and numbers, I started with Little Boy Blue, Jack Be Nimble (Change the name to each child in the room to get plenty of practice) and 1,2 Buckle my Shoe.I like the full color pages that makes it ready to use.The longer I teach, the more I understand that my time is valuable.When I put a $ value on my time, I realize that I can't "make" activities for less than I can buy them. ... Read more

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Full color makes it easy to use!
I purchased this book for my kindergarten classroom.My time is too valuable to spend it coloring.This book has full color pages that I can just laminate and use in my classroom.It also has sentence strips for the pocket chart and black line masters for the children's follow-up and retelling activities.I will use Humpty Dumpty first out of this one.Karen ... Read more

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Children love to pretend, and dramatic play is the perfect environment for practicing and applying literacy concepts. Whether they decide to be firefighters, to open a pet store, or to have a tea party, children will increase their vocabulary, communicate with their friends, and learn to recognize environmental print - all important skills for pre-readers. Literacy Play is chock-full of creative dramatic play activities that teach important pre-reading skills while bringing children's imaginations to life!Ages 1-5 ... Read more

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Here is an extensive integrated unit of study focused on that common and familiar insect-the cricket. In this edition, students are provided with more than 30 activities on crickets, which will help them learn science content and various skills. ... Read more

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Rhyme, rhythm, and music are an essential part of a quality early childhood program. The authors of the perennial favorite, Where is Thumbkin? have created activities children will love to accompany the 250 rhymes and songs in this invaluable new literacy book. Children learn letter recognition, vocabulary, phonemic awareness while they are singing and rhyming. Each rhyme or song includes theme connections so teachers can easily add literacy and music into their daily plans. ... Read more

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It gives a couple of good ideas.
I really enjoyed the songs in the book. ... Read more