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Alphabet Knowledge Set
The set includes CLI's book Alphabet Knowledge on teaching letter recognition, phonemic awareness, and phonological knowledge. It provides a wide variety of focused activities for daily work with the alphabet: games, rhymes, songs, and center activities are clearly described and linked to explanations of the skills they reinforce. Also included are two decks of laminated letter cards (upper and lower-case, 3 1/2" x 4 1/4") and a set of 8 1/2" x 14" reproducible masters for child-made alphabets to make and display in your classroom. Directions and suggestions are in the Alphabet Knowledge book.
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Author Packs
Each Author Pack provides the books and materials for an author study: 5 to 7 books by the same author, portrait, biography, and bibliography. CLI has more than 30 different author packs for grades pre-k through third. A CLI workshop on creating author studies is available in some regions (call for information).
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Center Applications
Blueprint for Early Literacy center/small group learning applications are book-related literacy and math activities for focused, small group and independent learning. Applications are carefully designed to engage children's desire to play while moving them toward grade-level goals. Each includes activities to extend skills and create original work by drawing and/or writing.
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Creating a Classroom Literacy Environment
A guide for childcare, Head Start, and pre-kindergarten teachers
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This new publication by Children's Literacy Initiative is presented in an easy to follow format with more than 50 color photographs illustrating how to implement the elements of a literacy-rich environment.
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How does a classroom
become a literacy environment?
A classroom which is rich with literacy is full of environmental and functional print, the best children's books, writing materials, and play spaces and activities that encourage and develop reading and writing. In these classrooms, children from every background, no matter their experience or skill level, are surrounded with the tools and materials they need to start down the path to being successful readers and writers. In these literacy-rich environments, reading and writing are not isolated skills to be studied or drilled, but are the very ground on which the children stand.
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The discussion of each topic -- room arrangement, centers, reading aloud, extending books into activities, and developing phonemic awareness -- is in clear, concise language with photos from actual classrooms. Following each topic, a section called "What this Achieves" connects the individual ideas to the "big picture" of overall literacy goals; in addition, each topic is followed by helpful suggestions culled from CLI's 15 years of experience in pre-kindergarten and Head Start classrooms.Creating a Classroom Literacy Environment shows teachers how to focus the classroom setting and activities to expand students' learning by:
- Incorporating reading and writing into every play space, center, and activityCreating learning and reading spaces within your classroomFilling your room with useful printTeaching vocabulary through reading aloud from the best children's literatureDeveloping phonemic awareness using rhymeDesigning classroom themes that harness children's curiosity and teach meaningful content
- Encouraging parents and families to extend classroom learning into the home
Creating a Classroom Literacy Environment is a user-friendly guide to creating the very best classrooms in which children's learning and children's work are the focus, so that every activity and every available material can become opportunities for engaged and joyful learning.
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Home Lending Library Parent Activity Cards
This set of 10 books, each with an activity card, is a great addition to the classroom's home lending library. Each card has activities based on the book for parents to do with their child before, during, and after they read aloud together. No-cost activities are easy and fun, and include introducing new vocabulary from the books into daily conversation. Available for pre-kindergarten and kindergarten.
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Message Time Plus® --
The Instructional Manual with CD-ROM and DVD
This set, created and published by CLI, includes a 132 page illustrated manual detailing each of the seven steps of this powerful instructional tool. Sample completed message planning forms, an instructional CD-ROM, and a DVD with actual classroom lessons are included to provide pre-k through 2nd grade teachers with generous support in developing skills using Message Time Plus.
Click here for more information about Message Time Plus®.
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Message Time Plus®: The First 60 Days
Designed for prekindergarten teachers, this gives specific guidance on how to start using Message Time Plus® in the first days of school. There are lesson plans for the first 60 days of school and teaching resources to help the teacher fully integrate the practice in their classroom, including:
- How to introduce children to the practice of Message Time Plus®
- A calendar to model how best to use the activities and messages
- Detailed lesson plans for using 30 different books for reading aloud, Message Time Plus, and other classroom learning and play activities
- Reproducible scaffolding cards, to support the teacher
- Reproducible alphabet cards
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The Reader’s Response Notebook
The Reader’s Notebook is designed to support students as readers. Each notebook contains tabbed areas for students to track their reading goals, list titles of books read, respond to literature, and grow vocabulary. The Reader’s Notebook is a wonderful way for teachers to locate student work in one concise, spiral bound, notebook.
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