Playful Activities for Reading Readiness: Laying a Foundation for Literacy - Paperback

by Latisha Hayes (Author)

Playful Activities for Reading Readiness offers purposeful, play-based activities to develop the foundational literacy and language skills young children need to succeed in school.

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Children learn best through play.
Did you know play supports children's skill building, from language and literacy to memory and math? Through play, children can experiment with words and concepts, express emotions and ideas, and make connections.
Playful Activities for Reading Readiness offers purposeful, play-based activities to develop the foundational literacy and language skills young children need to succeed in school.
Learn research-led tips to guide children to play their way through enhancing critical components of early language and literacy instruction, including:

• Oral language,
• phonological awareness,
• the alphabetic code,
• word recognition,
• foundational fluency,
• comprehension,
• vocabulary,
• concept knowledge, and
• early writing.

Full of hands-on, use-tomorrow activities, ideas for extended practice in centers, literacy connections, and real-life classroom examples, Playful Activities for Reading Readiness will help pre-K and kindergarten teachers provide children a firm literacy foundation. These expert-approved tips are correlated to the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework and kindergarten Common Core State Standards.
After all, learning to read can--and should--be fun!

Author Biography

Latisha Hayes, PhD, has taught students with reading disabilities in the primary through middle grades as a special educator and reading specialist. She is an associate professor at the University of Virginia, where she teaches courses on the diagnosis of and intervention for reading difficulties as well as English/Language Arts methods for early childhood, elementary, and special educators. She works with preservice and in-service teachers at the McGuffey Reading Center. She is coauthor of a number of books on literacy and has been published in many leading literacy and communication journals.