2013 Summer Highlights

Zoophonics

Using an animal alphabet helps children remember the shapes and sounds of the letters which are aspects of letter knowledge, one of the six skills of early literacy.

Letter sounds are taught before letter names. Lowercase letters are taught before capital letters. And including body movement for each animal letter helps to reinforce the connection between letter sounds and letter shapes. Learning is greatly enhanced when movement is involved.

Zoophonics helps close the gender gap when it comes to learning language. Boy's brains are wired in a way that makes language a more difficult skill to acquire and use effectively. Studies show that early childhood language and learning activities must be paired with movement and the use of manipulatives.

The Zoophonics materials will be available for checkout at the library soon!


http://www.zoo-phonics.com/ Visit the Zoophonics website to learn more about their products!

New Board Books

Wow, I can't believe how I have lost my blogging mojo! I think because I didn't do any preschool programming this year, I haven't been on top of my blogging. Time goes by so fast and it is already June soon! Summer is coming and, of course, that means the Summer Reading Program! So, I am getting back into the swing of things! I will be doing the preschool programming for summer, so hopefully that will keep me in the groove!

We have a ton of new board books come in to support our new 6 Skills of Early Literacy handouts that we created. They are available in the library near the kid's desk.

I would like to highlight a few...

These new "You Are My Baby" books are just adorable. It is a book within a book! The mama or papa animal is the larger book and inside there is a smaller book with the baby animal!

These new books are meant to tackle the difficult lessons to learn of not hitting or biting or pushing...

And finally, these cute books feature the most adorable monsters to teach shapes, colors, abcs and more!

 

Check out ALL these new board books and so many more at the Franklin Public Library!