Integrating environmental print across the curriculum, preK-3 : making literacy instruction meaningful / / Lynn Kirkland, Jerry Aldridge, Patricia Kuby ; acquisitions editor Stacy Wagner ; cover designer Monique Hahn

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910797593403321
• Autore: Kirkland Lynn
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Thousand Oaks, California : , : Corwin Press, , 2007; ©2007
• ISBN: 1-4833-6211-6; 1-4833-6428-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (161 p.)
• Disciplina: 372.412
• Soggetti: Language arts (Early childhood); Early childhood education - Activity programs; Interdisciplinary approach in education
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""About the Authors""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 1 - What We Know about Environmental Print and Young Children""; ""The Conceptual Framework for Using Environmental Print""; ""What We Know about Early Literacy""; ""Research on Environmental Print""; ""Environmental Print and Children with Special Needs""; ""Environmental Print and no Child Left Behind""; ""Summary of the Research Findings on Environmental Print""; ""Appropriate Ways to Use Environmental Print throughout the Curriculum""; ""Chapter 2 - Language Arts Activities""; ""Daily News""; ""Posters and Signs""""Dictionaries""; ""Writing Experiences""; ""Literacy Across Thematic Units""; ""Rebus Stories""; ""Wall Lists and Bulletin Boards""; ""Pocket Charts""; ""Text Innovations""; ""Word Boxes""; ""Book Boxes""; ""Newspaper Ad Word Search""; ""Recipes""; ""Lunchboxes""; ""Billboards""; ""Alphabet Scavenger Hunt""; ""Environmental Print Walk""; ""Restaurant Menus""; ""Alphabet Wall/Community Alphabet""; ""Alphabet Books""; ""Reading inside the Box""; ""Chapter 3 - Math Activities""; ""Puzzles""; ""Coupons""; ""Graphs""; ""Math Games""; ""Math in an Integrated Curriculum""; ""M&Mâ€?s Math""""Food Labels""; ""Enlarged Class Texts""; ""Lists""; ""Grocery Store Surveys""; ""Food Groups""; ""Chapter 4 - Health and Science Activities""; ""Making Flavored Milk""; ""Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwiches""; ""Making M&Mâ€?s Cookies""; ""Making Chicken or Vegetable Stew""; ""Making Pizza""; ""Making Pancakes""; ""Pretend Shopping""; ""Real Shopping""; ""Good Food Versus Junk Food""; ""Snacksâ€?How Good are They?""; ""Where does Food Go?""; ""Pretend Restaurant""; ""Matching Toothpaste""; ""Planting Seeds""; ""Using Cardboard Containers""; ""Weather Symbols""; ""Going on a Picnic""""Chapter 5 - Social Studies Activities""; ""Using the Newspaper""; ""Postcard Travel""; ""Mapping the Community""; ""Community Helpers""; ""Transportation Schedules""; ""Home Sales and Rentals""; ""Environmental Print Graphs and Elections""; ""Careers and Environmental Print""; ""Social Studies “Me Booksâ€? and Journals""; ""Culturally Diverse Environmental Print""; ""Chapter 6 - Creative Dramatics, Music, and Art Activities""; ""Art Collage""; ""Studying Artists""; ""Neighborhood Mural""; ""Me Boxes and “Myselfâ€?""; ""Delivery Vehicles""; ""Musicâ€?Songs for Commercials""""Creative Dramaticsâ€?“Centersâ€? Stage""; ""Musical Instrument Time""; ""Can You Make a Puppet?""; ""Chapter 7 - Meeting the Goals of the National Reading Panel through Environmental Print Activities""; ""Phonemic Awareness Activity: Starts Like . . .""; ""Phonics Activity: Blended Environmental Print""; ""Fluency Activity: Speedy Shopping List""; ""Vocabulary Activity: What Goes with This?""; ""Comprehension Activity: Where do You Find it?""; ""Conclusion: Challenges and Opportunities in Using Environmental Print""; ""Reflective Teaching""; ""Transformational Teaching""
• Sommario/riassunto: This hands-on guidebook highlights the research that supports environmental print (EP) instruction in Grades PreK-3 and provides a wealth of activities for jump-starting the literacy process.<b></b>