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You can help your baby, toddler and preschooler learn important skills now so they can become good readers. There are many simple and fun ways to do this. We invite you to bring your child to Library storytimes, which utilize research-based techniques to build early literacy skills. This newsletter will help you extend storytime benefits by including book-related fingerplays, crafts, and other activities. This issue features the literacy skill known as narrative skills. Narrative skills include the ability to describe things, tell events in sequence and retell stories. The ability to talk about what happens in a story helps a child understand the meaning of what was read. Choose books that have repeated phrases, tell a cumulative tale or have a cause and effect that your child may be able to predict. wordless books that allow the child to narrate the story. Here are some titles that promote narrative skills. |
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Fingerplays for Toddlers and Preschoolers
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Ten galloping horses (hold up ten fingers) Came through the town (slap hands on legs) Five were white ( hold up 5 fingers) Five were brown (hold up 5 fingers other hand) They galloped up (slap on thighs) They galloped down (slap knees) Ten galloping horses (hold up ten fingers) Came through the town (slap legs one more time) |
My fingers can wiggle. My fingers can tickle. My fingers can clap. My fingers can tap. My fingers can count. My fingers can bounce. My fingers can wave - through the air they go. My fingers can fold gently in my lap just so. |
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Storytelling Fun |
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Retelling stories helps children understand what they read. Pick a favorite or familiar book and ask your child to tell you the story. |
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Craft: Make a Paper Bag
Puppet |
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Use wordless
books to encourage your child to narrate a
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