Part 1 - Teaching Executive Functions through Storybook Reading:
Best Books and Interactive Reading Strategies
Monday, 1/21/19, 9:30 - 11:30 AM
Teaching Executive Functions Through Storybook Reading (Registration Form Below)
This engaging session discusses cognitive processes known as Executive Function (EF) and explores how highly interactive storybook reading time can help to develop and strengthen EF and build literacy skills.
Presentation Objectives: Part 1
a. Describe Executive Function and review how it develops
b. Learn how EF can be encouraged by using a range of engaging storybook reading activities
c. Review factors that contribute to family literacy success
- Best types of books to develop specific EF skills
- Frequency and appropriate duration of interactive reading time
Learning Activities: Part 1
As each executive function is introduced, participants will be engaged in an interactive activity to better understand the skill. Then age appropriate books, songs, and finger-plays will be reviewed, and simple reading strategies will be modeled – both for parent/child and
class/teacher. Each activity will review how EF’s are being used and developed. Storybook prop boxes will also demonstrate how all EF’s are used during dramatic play.
SPACE IS LIMITED! Register now on the form at the end of the page.
This training is offered free of charge to FRN members and their staff through support from FTF.
This engaging session discusses cognitive processes known as Executive Function (EF) and explores how highly interactive storybook reading time can help to develop and strengthen EF and build literacy skills.
Presentation Objectives: Part 1
a. Describe Executive Function and review how it develops
b. Learn how EF can be encouraged by using a range of engaging storybook reading activities
c. Review factors that contribute to family literacy success
- Best types of books to develop specific EF skills
- Frequency and appropriate duration of interactive reading time
Learning Activities: Part 1
As each executive function is introduced, participants will be engaged in an interactive activity to better understand the skill. Then age appropriate books, songs, and finger-plays will be reviewed, and simple reading strategies will be modeled – both for parent/child and
class/teacher. Each activity will review how EF’s are being used and developed. Storybook prop boxes will also demonstrate how all EF’s are used during dramatic play.
SPACE IS LIMITED! Register now on the form at the end of the page.
This training is offered free of charge to FRN members and their staff through support from FTF.
TRAINING LOCATIONTo Be Announced...
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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. |
