Have you seen theses two new storytime resource books?
Time for a Story: Sharing Books with Infants and Toddlers by Amy Read and Saroj Ghoting
Supercharged Storytimes: An Early Literacy Planning and Assessment Guide by Kathleen Campana, J. Elizabeth Mills, and Saroj Nadkarni Ghoting
I love how both of these resources address background information and research about early learning and how storytimes at the library can really address the skills children need to develop. Such terms as phonological awareness, print motivation, alphabetic knowledge, and vocabulary are used to teach us, the storytime presenters, what skills we can strive to develop during storytimes. However, both of these books also address Every Child Ready to Read’s five practices: Singing, Talking, Reading, Playing and Writing which are easy for storytime presenters to explain to parents and caregivers.
I love how both of these resources address background information and research about early learning and how storytimes at the library can really address the skills children need to develop. Such terms as phonological awareness, print motivation, alphabetic knowledge, and vocabulary are used to teach us, the storytime presenters, what skills we can strive to develop during storytimes. However, both of these books also address Every Child Ready to Read’s five practices: Singing, Talking, Reading, Playing and Writing which are easy for storytime presenters to explain to parents and caregivers.
I love how the skills and the practices are two sides of the same coin. As storytime presenters we need to understand both sides of the coin; however, when we talk to parents and caregivers about things they can do at home with their children we just have to talk about the five practices and how they support early learning. Singing, Talking, Writing, Playing and Writing are vehicles that lead to skills identified through VIEWS 2: communication, language use, comprehension, print concepts, alphabetic knowledge, and writing concepts in addition to the six skills from ECRR1: phonological awareness, vocabulary, print motivation, narrative skills, print awareness, letter knowledge.
Although the majority of Time for a Story discusses specifics about doing storytime with infants and toddlers, there is a great table near the back of the book that would be beneficial for all storytime presenters to look at: Story-Time Ideas and Book Sharing for Each Component starting on page 112. The chart lists the skill and its description, ideas for how to use it at storytime, book characteristics that support the skill, and tips about sharing the book. There are also sample parent tips starting on page 133.
Chapters 2-6 in Supercharged Storytimes highlights one of the five practices and takes us through what a storytime would look like for children ages birth-18 months, 18 to 36 months, and 36 to 60 months, highlighting the skills through each of the practices.
If you haven’t had a chance to look through these new resources I would encourage you to do so!
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