Suggested Articles and Websites
The National Institute for Literacy convened a National Early Literacy Panel, NELP. NELP's primary goal was to identify interventions, parenting activities, and instructional practices that promote the development of children's early literacy skills. Key findings of the panel pointed to 6 major variables coorelated to early and later literacy predictors. These 6 variables include:
* alphabet knowledge: knowledge of the names and sounds associated with printed letters
* phonological awareness: the ability to detect, manipulate, or analyze the auditory aspects of spoken language, independant of meaning
* rapid automatic naming of letters
* rapid automatic naming of objects or colors
*writing or writing name: the ability to write letters in isolation on request
*phonological memory: the ability to remember spoken information for a short period of time
THESE 6 VARIABLES FORM THE KEYSTONE OF OUR KIDDIEKINDERGARTEN.COM CURRICULUM!
We highly recommend you review these findings at
specifically: January 2009, Executive Summary, pgs. 13-20
All these reports can be downloaded or ordered by phone
1-800-228-8813 Email: edpubs@inet.ed.gov
Other publications for parents from the National Institute for Literacy include:
*Literacy Begins At Home: Teach Them To Read
*Shining Stars-Preschoolers Get Ready To Read
*Shining Stars-Kindergarteners Learn To Read
*Big Dreams-A Family Book About Reading
Kiddie Kindergarten ... teacher prepared, kindergarten and preschool reading lessons that are organized, printable and easy to use
Time Magazine
Vol.174 No. 22
December 7, 2009
The Year In Health
" Kindergarten is a time when the pre-frontal lobes- the seat of what's known as executive function, or what some researchers call effortful control- are just developing. The more training the brain recieves at this stage, the better it will function later in life."
We found a very creative, fun website with lots of clever games, songs and stories for Kindergarteners. It is
This website was designed by parents. They have created boldly colored, interactive cartoon figures to make the learning fun! Great FREE games, songs, stories and activities!
A High Quality, Comprehensive and Tech savy Website!
has great online activities that support our reading lessons .
Click on the ABC tab and then on the individual alphabet blocks. This online letter/sound presentation will reinforce what we are helping you teach with our Super Sound Cards.
Click on the learning to read tab. These activities will reinforce what we are helping you teach with our Short Vowel Fun Pages .
Remember
this is not a substitution for our lessons, there is no substitute for a caring teacher who is interacting with a child. A teacher who is paying attention to and adjusting instruction to the child's reactions and responses.
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