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This week I selected various animal books and talked a little about narative skills and more about letter recognition.
(Before Storytime)
I had a new group of 5 (1 caregiver 3 3yr olds and an 18 month old. They arrived early so I was able to introduce myself and sort of break the ice with the children. This is when I introduced letter recognition. We told each other our names and what letters our names started with, and then what other letters were in our names. It did not take long for them to start looking at the books selected for storytime. We then discovered that Christopher and Chicken not only starts with the same 1st letter but that it started with the same first 2 letters. One of the books I used was Chickens to the Rescue by John Himmelman. I also used letter recognition by letting the children pick out a puppet, identifying what the puppet was and what letter it started with. When we figured that out I changed the words to the Along Comes Mr. Alligator action rhyme and Mr Alligator snapped that rabbit, groundhog, lamb, etc.... right out of that tree.
Once storytime started I introduced narative skills. We used our narative skills a lot during this storytime. While reading Chickens to the Rescue and The Big Sneeze I encouraged the children to tell me what they thought would happen next. After showing them them pictures it was very entertaining to hear their interpretations. One of my favorite ways to get a response is to ask what would you do.....(i.e. if chickens were in your kitchen cooking a mea)l? What would your mom and dad do....( if chickens were in the kitchen)? Some of the respnses are priceless.
Using the concepts of ECRR seems to be really working. Although I have used some of the concepts all along, the knowledge of ECRR with those and new concepts gives us the potential to really make a difference. I have a whole new way of thinking when selecting materials for storytime and I have a focus. Immediately after picking up a book I go into ECRR mode.
So far so good!
April @
SW Library
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April,
Excellent use of ECRR concepts during your storytime of 5/25. It is exciting for me to see these things happening at our storytimes. I agree that you were probably using these concepts all along, but now you understand more fully why you were doing these things. And to recognize that you need to think a little differently about choosing your materials is a good thing! Keep up the good work. You are making a difference in the lives of those children.
Lynne
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