Everyday Literacy: Environmental Print Activities for Young Children Ages 3 to 8

By Stephanie Mueller

Teachers can use a collection of cereal boxes and take-out menus as essential literacy tools! The activities in Everyday Literacy integrate environmental print - words, letters, and symbols found in everyday life - into a curriculum that makes it easy to encourage children's literacy every day. Young children develop literacy through direct involvement in meaningful experiences with print. Everyday Literacy provides hands-on ideas for turning newspapers, signs and signals in the community, and catalogs and magazines into literacy experiences.

Key features of this book include:

Literacy goals to show how concepts of print, letters, and words can be integrated throughout the curriculum.
250 activities to practice developing literacy skills, including writing, comprehension, rhyming words, print awareness, sight word recognition, vocabulary understanding, and letter and letter sound recognition. Activities for making books using environmental print, such as "Seed Packet Pocket Books," a book whose pages children create from seed packet labels.
Literacy games, dramatic play materials, building equipment, and interactive bulletin boards. Activities that integrate print into math and science curriculum, such as, "Shopping Bag Addition" and "The Word World of Magnets." Activities in art, fine motor, and music and movement, such as, "Box Front Weaving," "My Name in Lights," and "Cereal Box Hop Scotch."
Take-home activities and field trips to places in the community.
An appendix with reproducible forms and patterns that can be used in the activities, a checklist of environmental print ideas, and list of children's books that include references to environmental print.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Gryphon House, Inc.
• Release date: Aug 25, 2017
• ISBN: 9780876597897

Stephanie Mueller

Stephanie Mueller is an experienced teacher, consultant, and trainer in the field of early childhood education. Her extensive knowledge coupled with her love of learning makes her a sought-after speaker for professional organizations, schools and parent's groups.

Reviews for Everyday Literacy

[reader1009-863136 · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

Adult nonfiction; preschool education. Has some good ideas for activities (many of which require significant prepwork), but these are on the whole more suited to preschool teachers and caretakers of 3- to 8-year-olds than they are for librarians looking for ideas to incorporate more literacy activities in their storytimes.