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Reading Comprehension Through Connection

Teachers can facilitate reading comprehension with specific books: ones to which children can connect! If the situation in the story is something with which a child is familiar, they will more easily make connections and understand the text as they read it. Children can find connections in almost any story—they only need help identifying those similarities to get started.
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Related Book: More Story S-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-r-s
Learning Center Ideas: Storytelling with Puppets

Who doesn’t love a good story? Storytelling is one of the most effective ways to teach children anything from science to social skills. Storytelling centers in the classroom particularly help students with their literacy skills by fusing reading and play. So what goes in a storytelling center? Images of comfy chairs and a well-stocked bookshelf come to mind, but for young children, no story center is complete without props!
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Related Book: Thrifty Teacher’s Guide to Creative Learning Centers
Should All Children be Required to Read Aloud in Class?

Reading aloud is a tried and true method for building literacy in young students. Many of us can remember going around the room and reading a page from a story book, or being called on to start the next paragraph. But for some, this test of reading ability can be stressful, especially for children who struggle with language.
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Related Book: Literacy for All Young Learners
Teacher Talk: Why Your Word Choice Matters

From their first language development milestone, many young children begin talking easily. This leads parents and caregivers to believe that their job is done fostering language and vocabulary development in the home. This is not true, and exactly why teachers should engage in language-rich interactions with their students.
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Related Book: Raising a Talker
How to Teach Your Child Spanish at Home

Learning Spanish can be easy for young children who get the appropriate practice and support from parents at home. Many parents of young children see the benefits in teaching Spanish to babies and toddlers who are just beginning to grasp early literacy skills they will continue to develop as preschoolers. If you are wondering how to teach your child Spanish at home, consider using fun, colorful props of pictures that make learning a new language a fun game. In Pam Schiller's Preschool Photo Activity Library, parents can teach emerging receptive and expressive literacy skills.
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Related Book: The Preschool Photo Activity Library
Story Starters for Kids

Creative writing prompts are a great way to encourage early literacy activities in preschoolers. Through the use of props or story starters, teachers can nurture early literacy skills through the art of story telling. This then easily blooms into early writing skills as students learn to express stories in written form. Story starters are just one of the stages of writing development in children. For more resources to encourage early literacy, browse our hundreds of strategies, tips, and activities.
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Related Book: Literacy for All Young Learners
Finding the Time for Reading

Early literacy is more than teaching a young child to read! It’s everything children know about communication, language- both verbal and nonverbal, reading, and writing before they actually have the skills to read or write.
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Related Book: Time for a Story
Immersion School Benefits for English Language Learners

Every child is unique and has their own background that they take with them to the classroom. For many children, this background includes a different language that is spoken at home. English language learners are students who are in the process of learning English in the classroom while their home language is different.
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Taking a Closer Look at Close Reading

Books are wonderful things! Children’s books are especially poignant, full of important lessons and beautiful messages about life and emotion. They convey new thoughts and ideas and illustrate stories we may have never heard of otherwise. That’s why identifying with books in early childhood is just as important as learning to read them. Close reading is a way to aid in that connection.
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Related Book: STORY S-T-R-E-T-C-H-E-R-S for the Primary Grades
How to Help DLL Students Struggling to Read

School can be difficult for young children. It’s a new place with new rules that may be different from the rules at home, and there is a newfound responsibility in learning in a classroom. Now imagine doing all that without understanding what people are saying! DLL students—(or dual language learners)—struggle with this issue every day.
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Related Book: Literacy for All Young Learners

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