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Currently being updated, available in May, 2012.
Here is the literacy manual that so many of you have requested. It features many full-colored pages of children’s art and writing, and accompanies the seminar of the same title and the “Kid Writing” video clips on our website.
Make your kindergarten writing program the best it can be. Learn proven strategies for organizing the kindergarten environment. Let Julie Lay and Nellie Edge show you why the “Kid Writing” approach is such a powerful way to systematically develop phonics skills through journal writing. Use music, art, sign language, and dance for brain-friendly learning across the curriculum. We are updating this book showing how this writing-to-read approach meets high Common Core State Standards. Though we have not completely polished every page of this literacy manual, teachers love it just as it is!
Meeting the Challenge of High Common Core State Standards
Currently being updated, available in May, 2012.
If you are unable to attend one of Nellie Edge’s joyful seminars, we can send you a copy of this beautiful and practical kindergarten guide today. It features 281 pages of proven strategies with 20 engaging, full color pages. This book reflects 20 years of early literacy research and gleans the best practices for accelerating early literacy from master Northwest kindergarten teachers. These are joyful strategies that teachers love, children love, and parents love! These strategies produce high student engagement and high literacy achievement.
L-o-v-e Spells Love ASL Instructional Videoby Nellie Edge, Nellie Edge Resources, Inc., revised 2009 and 2011
The next best thing to attending the powerful two-day summer signing seminar, Discover the Magic of Signing Songs, is to use this beautiful book and the accompanying seminar DVD, ASL guide, and anthology set. These practical seminar literacy packets are designed to introduce all educators to the joyful art of signing songs. Engage your children in signing songs for powerful ABC and phonics immersion; to enhance spelling, reading and speaking skills; to build a cooperative learning community; and to utilize their multiple intelligence's in learning and expressing language. Includes words and extensive curriculum connections for all songs, Brain-Friendly Literacy™ strategies, sample parent letters, phonemic awareness and differentiated literacy guides, information on using sign language for class management, classroom rituals and celebrations, literacy research, and resources. Packet comes with literacy manual, accompanying video, ASL book, and separate 10-page "I Can Read" Anthology collection (blackline masters).
Songs Include:
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star,
Happy Birthday,
The Traditional ABC Song, You Are My Sunshine,
May There Always Be Sunshine,
I Think You're Wonderful,
I Love The Mountains, (Amo Los Montes), Five Little Monkeys, Goodnight Irene (Buenas Noches Irene), Rainbow 'Round Me,
I Have A Cat (Yo Tengo Un Gato),
I Can Read Colors (Se Leer Colores),
Sign to Me, Sing Your Way Home
Songs Include:
Hola Mis Amigos/Hello My Friend, What a Wonderful World,
Pledge of Allegiance,
America the Beautiful,
See Me Beautiful,
ABC Phonics: Sing, Sign, and Read,The More We Get Together (with variations),
This Land is Your Land,
L-O-V-E Spells Love,
M-O-M Spells Mom
See high Common Core Standards in practice!
Discover a treasure trove of meaningful and creative curriculum ideas in Diane Bonica’s exemplary, child-centered kindergarten. You will be welcomed into “The Chicka-Boom Classroom” complete with a menagerie of giraffes, and a high level of science, math and literacy engagement. Discover how to truly honor childhood and challenge children to think deeply and love learning.
This 300-page curriculum manual features thirty amazing science hands-on experiences integrated with meaning-centered writing-to-read strategies that motivate children to reach high standards. It complements the engaging “movies” of learning in action and parent letters from Diane Bonica’s award-winning website.
Currently being updated, available in May, 2012.
Create a supportive “parents as partners” program with easy-to-implement strategies that will make a powerful difference in each child’s language and literacy development, social skills, and love of learning.
This engaging and practical 277-page literacy manual includes meaningful family involvement activities, delightful photo essays inside beautiful kindergarten classrooms, parent letters, and favorite resources. It compliments the philosophy and practices detailed in the book Celebrate Language and Accelerate Literacy: High Expectations • Joyful Learning • Proven Strategies, by Nellie Edge. Though we have not completely polished every page of this literacy manual, our kindergarten colleagues consider it a valued resource.
“We have a covenant with parents that says we jointly share the responsibility for teaching your child.” ~Ernest Boyer
See high Common Core Standards in practice!
Katie Nelson’s playful and engaging approach to literacy reflects her deep, deep knowledge of children, her love of music and language, and her understanding of how research supports a meaning-centered and systematic approach to literacy. With great wisdom and delight, Katie Nelson and Nellie Edge share how to organize the environment and present meaning-centered curriculum that meets high standards while imparting life skills of self-regulation, intrinsic love of learning, and how to be a responsible and kind friend. This comprehensive Literacy Model has 234 pages, 22 in full color!
Currently being updated, available in May, 2012.
This is the first draft of the writing-to-read manual that many of you have been waiting for. It is a practical resource book featuring a progression of authentic literacy experiences and publishing lessons culminating in independent writing centers and writing lessons that engage, delight, and motivate young writers.
These “best writing practices” from master Northwest teachers build on the “kid-writing” approach and work of Lucy Caulkins, Eileen Felgus, Julie Lay, Katie Wood Ray, and Darla Wood-Walters.
“We can choose to spoon-feed our children, or we can teach them to be self-motivated learners.” ~ Nellie Edge
