After observing a workshop on Brain development last spring, my supervisor and I discussed the possibility of me co-presenting a workshop this fall. Tonight that comes to fruition.
I will be co-presenting an Every Child Read to Read workshop for parents and caregivers for children aged birth through 18 months-- just babies!
In these workshops we present parents with the findings of research showing the positive influence that reading, singing, talking, and playing with your baby has to their being ready to learn how to read when they enter school.
We'll discuss the 6 skills for Early literacy (Print Motivation, Vocabulary, Print Awareness, Narrative skills, Phonological awareness, and letter knowledge), and how parents can (and do) promote these skills with their babies right now. For example, I play to sing, peek-a-boo, twinkle twinkle, and the itsy bitsy spider. I'll bring in my rag doll (I can't find the Cabbage Patch doll), and we'll also-- as a little break, make a baby book out of zip lock bags to promote print motivation, narrative still,s and vocabulary.
I hope this will be a fun and insightful evening. I'll post more about it after the fact.
