Tag: narrative skill

Storytime: Sharks

DOOR 2 DOOR STORYTIME EARLY CHILDHOOD LITERACY SKILLS:  Narrative Skill BOOKS TO DISPLAY Shark in the Park by Nick Sharratt Shark and Lobster’s Amazing Undersea Adventure by Viviane Schwarz Smiley Shark by Ruth Galloway Smiley Shark and the Great Big Hiccup by Ruth Galloway Sharkabet by Ray Troll Never Take a Shark to the Dentist…

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Storytime: Eric Carle

DOOR 2 DOOR STORYTIME EARLY CHILDHOOD LITERACY SKILLS:  Print Awareness & Narrative Skill BOOKS TO DISPLAY The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse The Very Hungry Caterpillar Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You Hear? The Very Lonely Firefly 10 Little Rubber Ducks The Mixed Up Chameleon…

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Children’s Program: Puppets

For this Monthly Children’s Program, I decided to set up maker stations where parents, caregivers and children could create puppets to promote phonological awareness and narrative skill at home. For this particular craft event, I chose a Three Little Pigs and Big Bad Wolf theme. I used thin cardboard to create a set of templates,…

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Storytime: Moose

DOOR 2 DOOR STORYTIME EARLY CHILDHOOD LITERACY SKILLS:  Narrative Skill & Vocabulary BOOKS TO DISPLAY What Use is a Moose? by Martin Waddell Duck, Duck, Moose! by Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen Moosey Moose by Christ Raschka Z is for Moose by Kelly Bingham Earnest, The Moose Who Doesn’t Fit by Catherin Rayner Chocolate Moose by Maggie Kneen…

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Storytime: Snowmen

DOOR 2 DOOR STORYTIME EARLY CHILDHOOD LITERACY SKILLS:  Narrative Skill & Letter  Knowledge BOOKS TO DISPLAY The Best Snowman Ever by Margery Cuyler Magical Snowman by Catherine Walters Sneezy the Snowman by Maureen Wright Sam the Snowman by Susan Winget A Really Good Snowman by Daniel J. Mahoney The Biggest Snowman Ever by Steven Kroll…

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Storytime: Sleep

DOOR 2 DOOR STORYTIME EARLY CHILDHOOD LITERACY SKILLS:  Phonological Awareness & Narrative Skill BOOKS TO DISPLAY Sleep Like a Tiger by Mary Logue The Napping House by Audrey Wood A Book of Sleep by Il Sung Na Nap Time for Kitty by Michael Dahl No Sleep for the Sheep by Karen Beaumont Creak, Said the…

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Storytime: Bats

DOOR 2 DOOR STORYTIME EARLY CHILDHOOD LITERACY SKILLS:  Narrative Skill, Letter Knowledge & Vocabulary BOOKS TO DISPLAY Bat Jamboree by Kathi Appelt Batbaby by Robert Quackenbush Bat Child’s Haunted House by Mercer Mayer Bats on Parade by Kathi Appelt Bats at the Ballgame by Brian Lies But Who Will Bell the Cats? by Cynthia von…

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Storytime: Monsters 2

DOOR 2 DOOR STORYTIME EARLY CHILDHOOD LITERACY SKILL: Vocabulary & Narrative Skill BOOKS TO DISPLAY Monsters Love Colors by Mike Austin Monster, Be Good! By Natalie Marshall Romping Monsters, Stomping Monsters by Jane Yolen Nighty Night, Little Green Monster by Ed Emberley The Monster Returns by Peter McCarty Go Away, Big Green Monster! by Ed…

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Storytime: Pumpkins

DOOR 2 DOOR STORYTIME EARLY CHILDHOOD LITERACY SKILL: Vocabulary & Narrative Skill BOOKS TO DISPLAY The Fierce Yellow Pumpkin by Margaret Wise Brown Big Pumpkin by Erica Silverman Pumpkin Circle: The Story of a Garden by George Levenson The Runaway Pumpkin by Kevin Lewis What am I? Halloween by Ann Margaret Lewis Mousekin’s Golden House by…

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Storytime: Hippopotamus

DOOR 2 DOOR STORYTIME EARLY CHILDHOOD LITERACY SKILL: Phonological Awareness & Narrative Skill BOOKS TO DISPLAY I Had a Hippopotamus by Hector Viveros Lee Bertie: Just Like Daddy by Marcus Pfister You’re Wearing That to School?! by Lynn Plourde I’m Not a Copycat! by Ann Bonwill Hippospotamus by Jeanne Willis The Hippo-NOT-amus by Tony Payne…

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