Ladders To Literacy: A Preschool Activity Book

Loaded with games, crafts, storytelling, and other classroom play ideas, Ladders to Literacy is a fun way to engage young children in preliteracy learning. It provides adaptable activities to boost the skills most strongly related to literacy, including print/book awareness skills, metalinguistic awareness skills, and oral language skills. Plus, practical scaffolding suggestions make it easy to tailor levels of demands and supports to suit individual needs. Field-tested, culturally sensitive, and proven effective, this structured skill-building program concentrates on the areas in which children need the most work, while ensuring that they get well-rounded, comprehensive instruction in any general education, special education, or inclusive classroom. The Preschool Activity Book targets basic preliteracy skills by orienting children toward printed materials and teaching letter sounds. Developmentally appropriate assessment procedures - informal observation guidelines, structured performance samples, and a checklist - help educators monitor children's progress.

Ladders to Literacy is an innovative supplemental classroom curriculum that allows educators to address the needs of children who are at risk for reading failure without giving up their current language arts programming. Both the Preschool and Kindergarten Activity Books offer more than 50 fun, skill-building activities to use with large groups of children. Each book is organized into three sections emphasizing print awareness, metalinguistic, and oral language skills -- skills that strongly correlate to reading success. By selecting activities from each section, teachers can focus on the areas in which their classes need the most work while ensuring that children still get well-rounded, comprehensive instruction.

The versatile activities complement any prereading curriculum in any classroom -- general, special education, or inclusive. Each field-tested activity provides scaffolding suggestions so that educators can easily vary levels of demands and supports depending on individual children's abilities. Choose the one that meets your classroom needs

The preschool activity book targets basic preliteracy skills such as orienting children toward printed materials and teaching letter sounds. It also provides professionals (and parents ) with developmentally appropriate and ecologically valid assessment procedures for measuring children's learning.