Yesterday I had the opportunity to attend a training led by the mentors of the
Rice School Literacy & Culture Project. It was amazing!! I'll be sharing more of what I learned in other posts. We learned that children need to hear 1000 stories read aloud to be ready to read on their own and that reading aloud to children is the SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT ACTIVITY FOR BUILDING THE UNDERSTANDINGS AND SKILLS NECESSARY FOR CHILDREN TO SUCCEED AS READERS (Mem Fox).
The training prompted me to share one of my TEACHING TREASURES. It's a teacher resource book called Book Cooks from Creative Teaching Press that uses children's literature and cooking in a very creative way. It gives 26 simple recipes--one for each letter of the alphabet--and other literacy and math activities to use with children after reading a story.
Rice School Literacy & Culture Project. It was amazing!! I'll be sharing more of what I learned in other posts. We learned that children need to hear 1000 stories read aloud to be ready to read on their own and that reading aloud to children is the SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT ACTIVITY FOR BUILDING THE UNDERSTANDINGS AND SKILLS NECESSARY FOR CHILDREN TO SUCCEED AS READERS (Mem Fox).
The training prompted me to share one of my TEACHING TREASURES. It's a teacher resource book called Book Cooks from Creative Teaching Press that uses children's literature and cooking in a very creative way. It gives 26 simple recipes--one for each letter of the alphabet--and other literacy and math activities to use with children after reading a story.
Since its Go Texan Day here in Houston, here is a recipe called Cowboy Cookies inspired by the story A Campfire for Cowboy Billy by Wendy K. Ulmer.
There are additional cowboy activities including this compound word game offered in the book as well.
Yee-Haw! Have fun with this teaching treasure y'all.
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