INF 322T 1nd Edition Lecture 2Outline of Last Lecture I. Nursery Rhymes, Songs, and Concept BooksOutline of Current Lecture II. Board BooksIII. Use of Line, shapes, color in children’s literatureIV. Controlled Reading V. Level and Grade marked on children’s literatureCurrent LectureThese notes are to be included in studying for the first exam. Please read all the reserve books and the articles in the course packet. Lecture nextweek will include counting books, concept books, controlled vocabulary readers, wordless books and picture story books. Lecture will be longer than usual due to me being ill last week. If you have any questions please feel free to contact Megan or me. Again sorry for the rough start to the semester.Notes:Building a Board Book Collection/Booklist, 2004Article recommends 10 essential board books for young childrenAll books do not need to be board books...in many cases the books are abridgedwhich disrupting the flow of the story....these books are a marketing and moneymaking endeavorAppropriate board books are designed for babies and toddlers to initiate a connection between books and language...excellent for encouraging emergent literacy behavior.These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.A word or two in large print per page... again I emphasize the importance of placement of illustration and text.Rhythm, repetition rhyme are important factors in creating quality board books. Also familiar subjects much like abc and 123 books.Photography works well. Babies love seeing photos of other babies...Tana Hoban—research showed that high contrast such as black and white made a excellent choice for infant board books.Familiar objects, animals, opposites -basic concept books work well in the board book formant.Helen Oxenbury, Byron Barton, Tana Hoban, are all good choices.Board books can be good for authors/illustrators...familiar characters transition from board books to picture story books...Kevin Henkes and Lois Ehlert. Beginning board books should illustrate things that babies do...singing, running, bouncing, and falling down Rosemary Wells, and Ian Falconer are other good choices.Early Childhood-Emergent LiteracyWhat is Early Childhood?The NAEYC (National Association for the Education of Young Children) defines a young child as from birth through age seven.Why Picture books in early childhood ?Children are never too young to experience literature. Earliest experiences are usually oral. A mother reciting a nursery rhyme or singing a lullaby to an infant."Lap reads" can begin as soon as a baby can support his or her head- about three months old.Cloth, vinyl or board books-are good for very children to explore a book through chewing or sucking.It is during the first few years of life that children began to develop literacy skills.What is Literacy?Literacy is the ability to read and write.Gordon Wells believes that a child's literacy ability depends on the number of literacy events that occur in the early developmental years. The more interactions a child has with reading in early childhood, the more likely that child will be successful in formal school.This idea of Wells is what has become to be known as emergent literacy behavior.What is Emergent Literacy?Emergent literacv-"readinq and writing behaviors of young children that precede and develop into conventional literacy" (Sulzby)Sometimes emergent reading behavior is referred to as "pretend reading" or "reenactment"--when children practice reading-like behaviors that build confidence in themselves as readers.This idea of emergent reading is relatively new. Its been in the last 30 years thatreading experts really began to view learning to read this way.Before the way of thinking was one of "reading readiness."Reading readiness-“the state of being prepared, sufficiently mature, and mentally able toundertake and be interested in attacking the job of reading."Today the thinking is that children are not getting ready to read but from the very beginning, actively engaged in exploring, examining, and trying to make sense of the written language. Literacy is emerging. This new way viewed children as active participants in the learning process and not just passive recipients of knowledge."Learning to Read Through Picture Books" by Sue OrnsteinThe focus of this article is on the developmental stages of how a child grasps the concept of reading.1. Learning how to hold a book correctly2. Directionality - learning how to scan the pages from top to bottom and left to right. Beginning books need large type and adequate space between words to help this learning process along.3. Next young children begin to distinguish between letter and word. The article even talks about this.4. Children begin to notice punctuation. They likefunny repetitive and expressive text.5. Ultimately the last stage is literacy and children develop cueing systems or reading strategies that enable them to read books independently. Its one of the biggestEUREKA events in a human's lives.Steve Herb's article "Building Blocks for Literacy" describes one theorist's approach tobecoming literate-- Lev Vygotsky's theory of social learning.Learning language is a social experience-- in a shared context between a child and an adult. Herb has suggestions as to how this can occur.An adult guides a child through a learning/book experienceAn adult provides many experience opportunities- -those literacy events that Wells spoke about.Early learning experiences should not be to the home.The experiences are ones that a child can be actively involved able to participate—library storytime or bookstore storytime Child care or Sunday schoolThe most likely books to develop this phenomenon are predictable books, wordless books, and controlled vocabulary readers.Books for the Beginning ReadersThese are special types of books that facilitate learning to read.Predictable Books Can be other categories or types too. Just another way of looking at a book.Predictable books can assist in literacy development through:1. The use of language and story patternsRepetitive language or sounds Often allow for participation Three Little Pigsi i 1 1 I . 1 1 . . iThree Bears Three Billy Goats Gruff2. Familiar SequencesNumbersDays of the Week, Months Hierarchies--The Three Billy Goats Gruff or The Napping House3. Predictable plotsRosie’s