Everyday Literacy: Environmental Print Activities for Children 3 to 8

by Stephanie R. Mueller, Ann E. Wheeler, Kathy Dobbs (Illustrator)

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

256 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2005

Reviews

[Tracey · Rating 2 out of 5]

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.