1. Every Child Ready to Read @ your library® Public Library Association Association for Library Service to Children Early Talkers

2. Peek-a-Boo Peekaboo! (Cover your face with hands) I see you! (Open hands to uncover face) I see your button nose. (Point to your nose or child’s nose) I see your tiny toes. (Point to child’s feet) I see you! Peekaboo! (cover and uncover face with hands)

3. Help children enjoy language, books and reading Six early literacy skills Art activities to reinforce skills Today’s Workshop

4. Effects of Starting Early

5. YOU Are Important YOU,,parents and caregivers know your children best Children learn by doing. Children model parents’ behavior First five years set the stage

6. What do they do? What do you do with them? Babies and Toddlers (up to 24 months)

7. Literacy in Our Daily Routine

8. WHAT IS EARLY LITERACY?

9. Early literacy is what children know about reading and writing before they can actually read or write.

11. Six Skills To Get Ready to Read Print Motivation Phonological Awareness Vocabulary Narrative Skills Print Awareness Letter Knowledge

12. Print Motivation Child’s interest in and enjoyment of books

13. Art Connection Bookmaking Draw a picture of a character from the story Make something you saw in the story Draw a picture of your favorite part of the story Make your own rebus story Create story puppets

14. Phonological Awareness The ability to hear and play with the smaller sounds in words

15. Eensy Weensy Spider The eensy weensy spider climbed up the water spout Down came the rain and washed the spider out Out came the sun and dried up all the rain So the eensy weensy spider climbed up the spout again.

16. Art Connection Sing songs with your child Make egg shakers Listen to music especially songs with words Share poems with your child (especially rhyming poems)

17. Language Has Rhythm Itsy, Bitsy Spider Nursery Rhymes Children’s songs

18. Vocabulary Knowing the names of things 

19. carrot carrot

20. ALA granted permission from Janellen Huttenlocher.

21. Art Connection Peek a boo Name Book Changing Face Puppet Coffee Can theater Emotion Cards Use paintings and photos to help child identify objects

22. Narrative Skills The ability to describe things and events, and to tell stories

23. Art Activity 1 2 3

24. Art Connection Tell the story of a piece of art (painting, sculpture, photograph, musical number) – What, who where, why – follow-up – write story that child tells (print awareness) Storytelling Change the ending/sequencing Act out the story Puppets

25. Print Awareness Noticing print everywhere Knowing how to handle a book Knowing how we follow the words on a page

26. Labeling/ Environmental Print Activity Labeling/ Environmental Print Activity

27. Art Connection Drawing Painting with Colored Yolk Make your own mailbox and send letters to yourself and friends Make and decorate signs

28. Knowing that letters are different from each other, that they have different names and relate to sounds Letter Knowledge

29. Art Connection Clay Name books Real life examples

30. Name Book Activity Child’s name on cover One letter on each page Draw, cut images

31. Making Connections What the child does Relate to early literacy skills

32. Five Steps for Sharing Books With Your Baby Pick the best time Show baby the book Talk and have fun Watch what baby does Share a book with your baby every day

33. What books are good for this age? How do I know what to choose?

35. Brain Development Babies are born learning and what they learn is up to us

36. Synaptic Density Permission to use for PLA/ALSC Early Literacy Project granted by Dr. Harry Chugani

38. Infants Focusing Patterns

39. Questions

40. Every Child Ready to Read @ your library We learn as we have fun. We have fun as we learn. Pass it on!