It seems I jumped ahead a week. Too many irons in the fire, I suppose. This week the focus of our preschool storytimes was counting.
Theme: Let’s Count!
Dates: Feb 25-28, 2013
Skill Tip:
Cumulative stories support the attainment of early reading skills by enticing children to predict each subsequent episode in the expanding tale. The repetitive words and phrases are quickly memorized and “read” by children generating in them a comfortable feeling of success. With each new reading, children increase vocabulary, improve sequence skills, and build confidence as readers.
Cumulative stories support the attainment of early reading skills by enticing children to predict each subsequent episode in the expanding tale. The repetitive words and phrases are quickly memorized and “read” by children generating in them a comfortable feeling of success. With each new reading, children increase vocabulary, improve sequence skills, and build confidence as readers.
Book
Introduction/Modeling skill:
Read My Little Sister Ate One Hare by Bill Grossman. Point to the words on the first page. Say:
“My little sister ate” and “We thought she’d throw up then and
there. But she didn’t.” are written on
almost every page. Each time these words
are repeated, join in the story. Pause
on each page to encourage the children to recite the refrain and recall the
creatures that little sister ate.
Additional theme related book (optional):
The Three Little Pigs (also has repetitive
text) by Margaret Hillert
Tie-in song, rhyme, fingerplay and/or
large group activity:
Armstrong, Linda. One, Two, Three Follow Me: Math Puzzles and Rhymes, Grades K-1, 10 copper pennies, pp 39-40, Linworth Publishing, Inc., 2005.
Additional Book(s):
My Granny Went to Market by Stella Blackstone and Christopher Corr
Turtle Splash! by Cathryn Falwell
Tie-in Activity
Ten Pennies Puzzle Page Orange and Gray crayons
If a space has ten dots, color it orange. If it has seven dots, color it gray.
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