language arts (preschool)

Offers strategies designed to help young children who have had little exposure to literacy activities, focusing on the use of in-school family storybook sessions with small groups of kindergartners. Includes examples of student work, reproducibles, and photographs.

Presents a guide to teaching writing to children in preschool, providing information on the different stages children progress through in acquiring literacy and writing skills.

Teaches math, reading, language arts, and visual discrimination skills through simple games and activities.

The author, a whole language kindergarten teacher, outlines her beliefs about how children learn; offers discussions of whole language theory and application, especially in the area of language arts; and includes bibliographies, and an appendix in which teachers share their successful classroom strategies.

A memoir of the author's last year as a kindergarten teacher during which she, and a little girl named Reeny, became immersed in the words and pictures of author Leo Lionni.

Explains how educators can conceptualize, plan, and implement an effective early literacy program, focusing on how to prevent reading difficulties and promote success in at-risk three to five year olds.