Playing with Print: Fun Activities and Ideas for Fostering Emergent Literacy

By Nancy Dewaard and Carol Bloom

By Carol Ann Bloom. To create a classroom where first encounters with literacy are playful and exploratory-not formal and separate from the child's world-this book spills out a rich cascade of ideas... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1596471336
• ISBN13: 9781596471337
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Good Year Books
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.3" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

An invaluable and highly recommended resource

Now in a newly expanded and updated second edition, "Playing With Print: Fun Activities And Ideas For Fostering Emergent Literacy" by early childhood education specialist Carol Ann Bloom offers Preschool, Kindergarten, First Grade, and Second Grade classroom teachers tools that can greatly improve the development of their students' emergent literacy through utilizing a wide range of play experiences and literacy-related props. "Playing With Print" offers a wealth of different ways to incorporate print into the instruction curriculum for reading and writing that will attract, engage and inspire children to attach meaning to the printed word with a naturalness and expertness that will stand them in very good stead for further academic achievement. The thoroughly 'user friendly' text is enhanced throughout with illustrations and with 'Tips' making "Playing With Print" an invaluable and highly recommended resource for both classroom teachers and home-schooling parents.