1. Kindergarten Methods
Developing Literacy

2. What is your response to this?
“When a child has the chance to hear one good story after another, day after day, he is being taught to read. When a child hears good adult language, and when he has the fullest, freest chance to use his own language, he is being taught to read.” James Hymes
What is your response to this?

3. What Do We Know… the story so far

4. What are Kindergarten children like today ?

5. Early American Concepts of Childhood & Education

6. “Miniature Adults”

7. Images of Childhood

9. Attributed to St. Ignatius Loyola
“Give me the child for the first seven years of his life and I will give you the man.”
Attributed to St. Ignatius Loyola

10. Emergent & Early Readers
Using your knowledge of the MAS and your readings so far:
What do kindergartners need to know?
What do kindergartners need to know and be able to do in order to be “ready” for Grade 1?
What does a literacy program look like in kindergarten?

11. The Language Domain
How do we support emergent readers & writers in the kindergarten classroom?
How can we scaffold student literacy development through interactive and shared reading/writing?

12. Interactive Read-Aloud & Shared Reading Support…
Writing
Speaking
Listening

13. Shared Reading ? ?

14. Shared Reading
Create a Shared Reading lesson with your partner using a poem or rhyme selected to teach to kindergartners!
Use the template provided
Try to address the following:
Basic procedure of shared reading
What are the main steps?
Whole class involvement
Discuss:
In what ways does the teaching of rhymes, songs & finger-plays support the ideas presented in Kostelnik?

15. ACTIVITY 1: Planning A Shared Reading Lesson
Using the LP template and information provided in Kostelnik and Tompkins, create a developmentally appropriate Kindergarten shared reading lesson that incorporates the following:
Book introduction & previewing activity
Before/during/after reading phases
4 small group literacy extension activities [rotations]:
2 work work activities: phonics & phonemic awareness
Writing
Handwriting

16. Gentry’s Phase Assessment
As we view Phases 1-4 consider the following:
What information does Gentry obtain about each child’s literacy development?
How does he obtain this information?
What steps can you identify in his assessment procedure?
How might you use the information obtained through these assessments to plan instruction?

17. Creating an Environment for Learning
What are the elements of a kindergarten classroom?
What resources support student learning?
Assignment Overview
Kostelnik