Using Books With Children

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Using Books With Children

• Workshop Series for Parents on Early Literacy

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Thanks for coming!

• If you dont know me by now..
• Our hostess with the mostess

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Those Bureaucrats

• Workshops are a joint project of LIFT-Missouri,
  the Missouri State Library and the Parents As
  Teachers National Center and are sponsored by
  HeadsUp! Missouri.
• The video clips used throughout the workshops
  have been pulled from the HeadsUp! Reading video
  series.

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Your mission, should you choose to accept it

• Parents will view and practice different ways to
  help children learn skills that will help them
  become better readers.
• Children will have the opportunity to play and
  learn with others.
• And, each family will receive a book to keep at
  the end of the evening.

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Oh man!

• Some children will not want to stay with the
  other children the entire time. Have sympathy.
  Next time, it might be your kids.
• There will be paperwork. (Come on, its a state
  sponsored project! There had to be paperwork.)

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Our topic tonight

• writing

writing
writing
Writing
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My kid? Are you kidding me?

• In your small group, discuss how young is too
  young?
• What is your worst fear about young children
  writing?

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Writing in a Preschool Setting

• Lets take a look at how this preschool teacher
  works with these 4 year olds to encourage writing.

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Hmmmm

• What kinds of things did you notice about this
  video clip?
• What kinds of things could you do at home?

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Missouri Pre-K Standards

• Symbolic Development
• Spoken/Expressive Language
• Listening/Receptive Language
• Written Language
• Knowledge of Print and Books
• Sounds of Language

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Written Language

• Increasing ability to understand that graphic
  symbols (i.e. print) are meaningful and can be
  used to communicate with others.
• Explore written language by writing various
  curves, angles, or scribbles.
• Start to understand that writing is based on
  letters representing speech
• sounds.

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Written LanguageIndicators Examples

• Experiments w/writing tools materials.
• Uses scribbles, shapes, pictures, letters to
  write.
• Tells others about intended meaning of
  drawings/writings.
• Uses a variety of resources to facilitate writing.

Shows beginning control of writing tools.
Scribbles letter-like symbols, some letters asks
others to read it Uses writing to communicate
May ask others for help, attempts to copy
letters, words from environment.
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Still worried about the walls?

• What materials, instruments and locations could
  you and your child explore for writing?
• Pair up with a partner and come up with a list.

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Creativity Abounds

• Now that weve seen how creative you can be,
  lets take a look at how this teacher gets
  creative with writing in (and out of) his
  classroom.

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Any thoughts?

• What did you think of those ideas?
• Any you want to swipe?
• Any questions?

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Summary

• Writing is an important means of expression and
  communication for children.
• Children begin to write by using scribbles and
  drawings.
• Parents and caregivers need to encourage
  childrens development of
• writing through play.

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Dont forget the paperwork

• Please take a few minutes to answer a quick
  survey about this series of workshops.
• Your input will help us improve what we can do
  next time.

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Thank you and goodnight.