A Wonderful New Year is upon us! Time to start with the Storytime Seedlings Podcast, Episode 17.
1. Listen to the Podcast - Episode 17 - A Wonderful New Year - Storytime Seedlings
Walking in A Winter Wonderland
3. A Wonderful New Year - Fingerplays and Songs
Oh, Happy New Year (Tune: La Cucaracha!)
Oh, Happy New Year,
(Shake your hands like you're shaking maracas)
Oh, Happy New Year
It’s a brand new way to start
CHA CHA CHA! (Now do a little dance)
Oh, Happy New Year
Oh, Happy New Year
Everybody dance the part--
CHA CHA CHA!
Oh, Happy New Year,
Oh, Happy New Year
It’s a brand new way to start
CHA CHA CHA!
Oh, Happy New Year
Oh, Happy New Year
Everybody dance the part--
CHA CHA CHA!
4. Early Literacy Tip -- Oral Language Development in Children
Supporting our children's oral language is important to developing reading and comprehension skills. Blessings in the New Year! See you in storytime, Lauren
*Activities that support oral language development:
1. Read books that expose children to varied and rich vocabulary through discussion of the pictures, text, and story development and sequence.
* Pose questions that ask the child to tell about what is happening in the story and in the pictures.
2. Talk with children.
* Extend discussions so that the child actively practices new language skills.
* Initiate interactive dialogues that use new vocabulary and concepts and work with sounds and letters.
* Show children how to ask questions (such as what, when, where, why, how, and who).
* Help children develop language for making comparisons (These feel soft, but these feel hard).
3. Go beyond building vocabulary to using vocabulary as a foundation for more complex skills such as grammatical knowledge, definitional vocabulary, and reading comprehension.
* Help the child develop a “deep” understanding of new vocabulary by selecting print that uses the new vocabulary in context, providing different meanings for the same word, using the same word in different kinds of sentences.
*Source: Early Beginnings EARLY LITERACY KNOWLEDGE AND INSTRUCTION, from US Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
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I'm Lauren Teixeira, Children's Librarian and Podcaster.
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