INSTRUCTOR’S RESOURCE MANUAL AND TEST
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EARLY LITERACY IN PRESCHOOL
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A Multicultural Perspective
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Fourth Edition
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Janice J. Beaty, Linda Pratt
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INSTANT DOWNLOAD
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COMPLETE CHAPTERS
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COMPLETE ANSWERS
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CONTENTS
Instructor’s Resource Manual and Test Bank
Chapter 1: Foundations of Early Literacy ...................................................................... 1
Chapter 2: A Multicultural Perspective .......................................................................... 9
Chapter 3: Language Emergence in Young Children….............................................. 17
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Chapter 4: Music as a Natural Language ..................................................................... 24
Chapter 5: Speaking and Listening .............................................................................. 32
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Chapter 6: Art as a Natural Language .......................................................................... 41
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Chapter 7: Becoming a Writer ..................................................................................... 48
Chapter 8: How Reading Emerges ............................................................................... 56
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Chapter 9: Home Book Experience .............................................................................. 64
Chapter 10: Becoming a Reader................................................................................... 72
Appendix A: Answer Key ............................................................. 81
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Appendix B: Handouts ................................................................. 90
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Chapter One
Foundations of Early Literacy
In This Chapter You Will Learn To:
• Explain the meaning of early literacy.
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• Describe examples of emergent literacy.
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• Describe early literacy skills identified by research.
• Discuss early childhood curriculum criteria.
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• Assess children’s literacy achievements.
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Demonstrate which technologies are appropriate for preschool programs.
Essential Content:
1. Early literacy consists of
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• Infant communication through crying, cooing, smiling, babbling.
• Toddler communication through imitating sounds and gestures.
• Preschool communicating through speaking and listening, scribbling and
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writing, art activities, dramatic play, book reenactments, storytelling,
singing, chanting, and recording.
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2. Emergent literacy consists of
• Natural development of reading and writing, speaking and listening skills.
• Wide range of children’s literacy behaviors:
o Listening to stories
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o Discussing stories
o Making up stories
o Pretending to read
o Retelling familiar stories
o Turning book pages at the right time
3. Goals for preschool:
• Enjoying listening to and discussing storybooks
• Understanding that print carries a message
• Engaging in reading and writing attempts
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• Identifying environmental print
• Playing rhyming games
• Identifying some letters
• Using known letters
4. Goals for kindergarten:
• Enjoy being read to and retelling stories
• Using descriptive language
• Recognizing letter and sound matches
• Showing familiarity with rhymes and beginning sounds
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• Understand left-to-right and top-to-bottom orientation
• Matching spoken words with written words
• Beginning to write alphabet letters and some words
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5. Emergent literacy activities:
• Interactive storybook reading
• Shared reading with Big Books
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• Storytelling; flannel boards; puppets
• A print-rich environment
• Pretend play; story reenactments
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• Shared writing
• Drawing as writing; journal writing
• Letter recognition games
6. Core knowledge and skills:
• Vocabulary development
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• Phonological awareness
• Phonemic awareness
• Alphabet knowledge
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• Print awareness
7. Current early childhood curriculum criteria
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NAEYC Curriculum Criteria: Books
• Read books in engaging manner
• Read in individualized ways
• Allow them to explore books on their own
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• Give access to various types of books
• Read same book on repeated occasions
• Retell and reenact events in books together
• Engage in conversation about books
• Link books to other curriculum aspects
• Identify parts of books
• Differentiate print from pictures
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