The presenter will demonstrate how the combination
of music with a predictable book's text can give the emergent
reader a successful foundation of early literacy. Early childhood
curriculum will be introduced and implemented through the context
and themes of the predictable books.
1. The conferees and presenter will read
and sing predictable books that have been put to music. The presenter
will demonstrate how to teach early literacy concepts such as
phonological awareness, letter recognition, sound-letter associations,
and left to right progression using predictable books with sing-alongs.
Research from the following early childhood reading consultants
and authors will be shared: Dorothy Strickland, Susan Neuman,
Irene Fountas, Gay Su Pinnell, Donald Bear, Shane Templeton, Marcia
Invernizzi, Francine Johnston, Marie Clay, Michael Opitz, Judith
Schickedanz, and the National Research Council. The presenter
will show how predictable storybooks with sing-alongs can provide
a successful and solid foundation of literacy as well as inspire
the love of literacy for the students.
2. The presenter will also discuss the
significant research findings on the benefits of music and its
developmental effects on learning during the early childhood years.
Examples will be shared on how a predictable storybook's text
put to music incorporate each of Howard Gardner's 8 Multiple Intelligences.
3. The predictable storybooks used in the
presentation incorporate early childhood curriculum such as colors,
numbers, rhyme, days of the week, and themes. Conferees will see
examples of how a predictable book's text and theme can provide
opportunities to implement early childhood curriculum such as:
counting, sorting, classifying, graphing, sequencing, patterning,
creative movement, role play, critical thinking skills, and habitats.
4. The presenter will show teachers examples
of how children can make and illustrate predictable student-books
to stimulate creativity, pride, and literacy confidence for the
students. The student-illustrated books can be shared with the
student's family so that learning can continue in the home.
5. The presenter will demonstrate developmentally
appropriate activities and strategies that incorporate language,
math, science, and art and provide extensions to the theme and
context of the predictable storybook.
