Part 2 - For the Love of Literacy: Books, Stories, Songs, Rhymes, Poems, and Dramatic Play and Executive Functions
Monday, 2/25/19, 9:30 - 11:30 AM
For the Love of Literacy: Books, Stories, Songs, Rhymes, Poems, and Dramatic Play and Executive Functions
Thank you for your interest. Registration is full at this time.
This highly engaging session demonstrates how interactive storybooks, songs, poetry, finger-plays and dramatic retells motivate and teach vocabulary and comprehension, early phonemic awareness, attention span, memory and emotional awareness.
Presentation Objectives
1. Discuss the connection between pleasure, repetition and literacy learning.
2. Review research regarding:
a. Storybook reading and vocabulary development
b. Storytelling and comprehension
c. Singing and memory and fluency
d. Rhymes, poems and finger-plays and attention span and focus
3. Demonstrate read-aloud, sing aloud, and finger-plays and dramatic retells using puppetry
4. Review factors that contribute to literacy success
a. Best types of books and songs to develop specific literacy skills
b. Frequency and appropriate duration of interactive reading time
Learning Activities:
Participants will be engaged in literacy activities that explain the how and why language and reading skills develop. Age appropriate books, songs, and rhymes, poems and finger-plays will be reviewed, and simple, fun reading strategies will be modeled. A comprehensive handout reviewing reading development from birth through five and characteristics of best books, songs, finger-plays and poems will be provided. Dramatic play prop boxes that encourage oral language and problem-solving will also be presented.
This training is offered free of charge to FRN members and their staff through support from FTF.
Thank you for your interest. Registration is full at this time.
This highly engaging session demonstrates how interactive storybooks, songs, poetry, finger-plays and dramatic retells motivate and teach vocabulary and comprehension, early phonemic awareness, attention span, memory and emotional awareness.
Presentation Objectives
1. Discuss the connection between pleasure, repetition and literacy learning.
2. Review research regarding:
a. Storybook reading and vocabulary development
b. Storytelling and comprehension
c. Singing and memory and fluency
d. Rhymes, poems and finger-plays and attention span and focus
3. Demonstrate read-aloud, sing aloud, and finger-plays and dramatic retells using puppetry
4. Review factors that contribute to literacy success
a. Best types of books and songs to develop specific literacy skills
b. Frequency and appropriate duration of interactive reading time
Learning Activities:
Participants will be engaged in literacy activities that explain the how and why language and reading skills develop. Age appropriate books, songs, and rhymes, poems and finger-plays will be reviewed, and simple, fun reading strategies will be modeled. A comprehensive handout reviewing reading development from birth through five and characteristics of best books, songs, finger-plays and poems will be provided. Dramatic play prop boxes that encourage oral language and problem-solving will also be presented.
This training is offered free of charge to FRN members and their staff through support from FTF.
TRAINING LOCATIONLutheran Social Services
of the Southwest 2502 E. University, Suite 125 Phoenix, AZ 85034 Please park in any uncovered parking space. |
Billie Enz,
Ph.D. Elementary Education, Arizona State University Billie is an emeritus professor at Arizona State University where she served as an administrator in the College of Education for over 25 years. Dr. Enz was a member of the Early Childhood teaching and research faculty and established the award winning on-line ECD master’s program. Dr. Enz is an expert in the areas of family literacy, emergent literacy and language acquisition, co-authoring three textbooks in this area, including Helping Young Children Learn Language and Literacy: Birth through Kindergarten – 5th Edition (2019), Teaching Language and Literacy from Preschool through the Elementary Grades – 5th Edition (2015), and Assessing Preschool Literacy Development (International Reading Association, 2009). Dr. Enz is an internationally recognized expert in the areas of emergent literacy and first language acquisition and has worked to develop appropriate curriculum and teaching strategies for preschool and elementary school systems internationally. Locally, Billie works for New Directions Institute and helped to develop curriculum for the S.T.E.P.S. program. Since retiring Dr. Enz has taught brain health courses for senior citizens who believe in the importance of continuous learning and, on the other end of the developmental continuum she teaches early language and literacy class to newborns and their first-time moms for First Things First. |
