ERCC Concept of the Week (06/20/07)

Does your child have a favorite book that they like you to read to them over and over again? At our house it was “Counting Kittens” and “Needabeck’s Number Book.” I know, I know you dream in “Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See”, but be assured that you are helping your preschooler develop early literacy skills that will make them ready to become readers. This is a good opportunity for your little one to develop their narrative skills, helping them to be able to describe things and events and to tell stories. Ask them to “read” or tell the story to you. Play a sequencing game, ask them what came first in the story. What happened at the end and in the middle of the story. Let them make up a different ending. Let them “draw” or illustrate the story. Pick out key words and write them out. An example in “Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See?” might be the color words or the animal words in the story. Find ways to play games with these words. Change familiar words to silly words; Blubooda Bear, Blubooda Bear what do you plip? Be creative, think out of the box and all of a sudden you see that book you read over and over again in a new and different way. Remember to have and make it fun!