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PRE-K UPDATE
OCTOBER 31, 2018
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Here's the latest news from The Long Island Pre-K Initiative, your source for
expert training and useful resources:
www.nassauboces.org/pre-k
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"Best Practices" conference is a sell-out!
Online registration is now closed
We're pleased to announce that our third annual full-day conference has sold out. Approximately 450 educators, exhibitors and presenters will gather at the Crest Hollow Country Club next Tuesday, November 6, making it the largest early childhood event on Long Island!
 For live tweets from the conference, follow us
@LongIslandPrek
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Every day is picture book day in Pre-K & K -- but did you know that November
is officially "Picture Book Month"?
Picture Book Month is an international literacy event designed to promote the importance of print picture
books--and it offers teachers an impressive set of resources.
For starters, there's a
downloadable teacher's guide that outlines the role of picture books not just in literacy lessons, but in math, science and social studies.
Plus, there's a website,
picturebookmonth.com, that goes beyond explaining how the month is celebrated--it also includes helpful lists of literacy organizations, kidlit bloggers and other picture book resources, such as the Children's Book a Day Almanac and Happy Birthday Author.
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Here's where you can find helpful lists of picture books to add to your classroom bookshelf
Looking for a spooky book for Halloween? A book that will help children with spatial awareness? Recent award winners? There are many places a teacher can look. Here are just a few:
The International Literacy Association reviews books for students of all ages, and
includes picture books in its blogs. For example, there were the predictable spooky stories collected for Halloween and a timely collection of books about solving conflicts. But the topics aren't always so expected; this week's blog shares a list of books from "down under." Authors are from Australia and New Zealand and read-alouds include the clever Heads and Tails by John Canty, which challenges children to guess the animal being depicted. For more,follow The International Literacy Association on Facebook or @ILAToday onTwitter
The ILA also offers the annual Teachers' Choices and Children's Choices downloadable publications. The 2018 children's list, for instance, includes 30 favorites for the youngest readers. And the website also provides pdfs of the 2017 lists.
Read Brightly bills itself as a resource to help parents promote reading, but it includes resources specifically for teachers, too. But its book lists are where Read Brightly really shines. Just out, for example, a list of 11 picture
books about elections and voting, including
Amelia Bedelia's First Vote by Herman Parrish and
Max for President by Jarrett J. Krosoczka. The "Teach Brightly section of its website includes an educator's guide to the much-loved Llama Llama books and a list of 8 books that introduce children to the scientific method. For alerts about new book lists and more follow @ReadBrightly on Twitter or Brightly on Facebook (see latest post at right).
The Erikson Institute's Early Math Collaborative and the Development and Research in Early Math Education (DREME) Network at Stanford might not come to mind immediately when it comes to read-alouds, but both offer resources to teachers on using picture books for such topics as spatial relations and
measurement. DREME, for example, offers teacher guides rather than lists of books. Most helpful: a guide to choosing a high-quality math-related picture book, including a downloadable guide to making the analysis yourself. (Note: you have to register, but access is free.) Erikson, on the other hand, does offer book lists that are curated to zero in on specific topics. For example "3 Picture Animal Books That Explore Questions About Data" or "3 Children's Books That Build an Understanding of Equivalency." Each book description includes a note about how the read-aloud relates to learning standards. For updates, follow @eriksonmath or @DREMEmath on Twitter.
Finally, the
School Library Journal could be the secret weapon of your school's library media specialist, if you are lucky enough to have one. Ask` them--or a member of your public library's staff--for a look at recent lists, such as titles for emergent readers or books for fall holidays. (Most online lists are open only to subscribers.) For book news, follow @sljournal on Twitter.
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Read-alouds aren't only for school; here are early literacy tips to share with parents and caregivers
Families may not know what "phonological awareness" is, but there's much they can do to help children develop the awareness of sounds they will need to
become fluent readers. From the nonprofit Understood, comes a clear and concise list of nine ways parents can build pre-reading skills. You may want to share such tips as:
--Choose books that rhyme or repeat the same sound and draw your child's attention to them--e.g., fox, socks, box.
--Connect the sounds--e.g., the reader can ask "Start with /p/ and add /ig/. What would do you hear when you put them together?"
Click here for the other seven tips for parents and to read more.
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About Us
The Long Island Pre-K Initiative is a grant-funded project that seeks to strengthen partnerships between school districts and community-based organizations and to share information about research, policy and best practices for early learning. Administered by Nassau BOCES, it is supported with expertise from The Early Years Institute and funds from the Rauch and Hagedorn Foundations. Our partners: Eastern Suffolk BOCES, Western Suffolk BOCES, and the Child Care Councils of Nassau and Suffolk.
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NASSAU BOCES DEPARTMENT OF STRATEGIC INITIATIVES
71 Clinton Road, Garden City, NY 11530-9195
Phone: (516) 396-2220 Fax: (516)-396-2355
www.nassauboces.org
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