ABSTRACT
This practical, reader-friendly textbook for preservice and in-service early childhood education and early literacy courses provides "how-to-do-it" instructions for promoting emergent literacy in reading, writing, and arithmetic from preschool into the primary grades. Early 3 Rs answers the question: "What can I SAY and DO to give each child the best possible start on the 3 Rs?"
With the strategies and materials in this book, a teacher can give personalized direct instruction in the 3 Rs to a beginner, in just a few minutes a day. The early chapters tell how to prepare a young child for reading, writing, and arithmetic. Subsequent chapters show how to give a beginner an early start on learning the 3 Rs. All strategies begin with the oral approach (from phonemic awareness to "arithme-talk") and then progress to print that is personally meaningful to a young child. Early 3 Rs:
* Includes arithmetic as a component of early literacy.
* Gives developmentally appropriate methods for direct teaching of the 3 Rs.
* Provides scripts of what the teacher can say to promote early learning.
* Helps education students in field-based classes offer personalized instruction.
Early 3 Rs is written to be very reader friendly: the approach is intentionally eclectic; the writing deliberately avoids heavy theory; the goal is to provide an easy-to-use, highly practical and accessible guide for those who work in early childhood education settings.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Unit I|50 pages
How to Foster Growth Toward Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic
chapter 1|4 pages
Preview of Unit I: Fostering Growth Toward the 3 Rs
chapter 2|5 pages
Immerse Children in the Oral Language of the 3 Rs
chapter 3|7 pages
Speak Arithme-Talk to Develop Concepts
chapter 4|7 pages
Read Aloud to Them, With Participation Extras
chapter 5|6 pages
Get Them Ready for Phonics—Orally
chapter 6|8 pages
Surround Them With Written Language, and Talk About Print
chapter 7|4 pages
Demonstrate Writing, and Talk About Whatever They Write
chapter 8|4 pages
Seize the Teachable Moment
chapter 9|3 pages
Summary of Unit I
part Unit II|42 pages
How to Help Early Learners Take Their First Steps into the 3 RS
chapter 10|5 pages
Preview of Unit II: Help With the First Steps
chapter 11|7 pages
Teach Each Beginning Reader Four words
chapter 12|5 pages
Help Each Child Write a Personalized Storybook
chapter 13|6 pages
Connect Familiar Initial Letters With Their Sounds
chapter 14|4 pages
Make a Personalized “1, 2, 3” Book With Each Early Learner
chapter 15|6 pages
Introduce More Numbers, Words, and Personalized Books
chapter 16|4 pages
Use Child-Selected Words for Teaching More Phonics
chapter 17|3 pages
Summary of Unit II
part Unit III|38 pages
How to Expand and Vary Strategies for Early Teaching of the 3 RS
chapter 18|4 pages
Preview of Unit III: Expand Strategies for Early Teaching
chapter 19|6 pages
Use Software and Equipment to Enrich Your Teaching
chapter 20|4 pages
Move Toward Math Through Children's Books
chapter 21|4 pages
Start a Word Wall of Pupils' Names in Alphabetical Order
chapter 22|4 pages
Go Beyond Concrete Nouns and Action Verbs
chapter 23|7 pages
Teach the Whole Alphabet for Reading, Writing, and Phonics
chapter 24|5 pages
Stimulate New Areas of Language Development
chapter 25|2 pages
Summary of Unit III
part Unit IV|27 pages
How to Smooth the Transition Into 3 RS in the Primary Grades