This Reading Adventure Treasure Chest Kit has been assembled
to provide a thematic list of storytime materials for use by enhanced members
and their patrons. The kit is
geared toward the preschool age group yet is flexible enough to capture the
interest of toddlers and early school age children. The Activity
Ideas are designed to be aids to use the materials listed in the
kits.
If you would like more information concerning this project, contact SERLS via
e-mail at dirserls@oplin.org.
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Material Type |
Title |
Author |
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BOOK |
Abiyoyo |
PETE SEEGER |
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BOOK |
Corduroy |
DON FREEMAN |
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BOOK |
Curious George |
H.A. REY |
|
BOOK |
The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate The Wash |
TRINKA HAKES NOBLE |
|
BOOK |
Don't Tell The Whole World! |
JOANNA COLE |
|
BOOK |
The Dumb Bunnies |
SUE DENIM |
|
BOOK |
Fritz And The Beautiful Horses |
JAN BRETT |
|
BOOK |
Henny Penny |
PAUL GALDONE |
|
BOOK |
John Burningham's A B C |
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|
BOOK |
The Little Firemen |
MARGARET WISE BROWN |
|
BOOK |
Little Rabbit Foo Foo |
MICHAEL ROSEN |
|
BOOK |
Pulling My Leg |
JO CARSON |
|
BOOK |
The Red Carpet |
REX PARKIN |
|
BOOK |
Sylvester And The Magic Pebble |
WILLIAM STEIG |
|
BOOK |
Three Little Kittens |
PAUL GALDONE |
|
BOOK |
The Three Little Wolves And The Big Bad Pig |
EUGENE TRIVIZAS |
|
BOOK |
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs |
ALEXANDER WOLF as told to JON SCIESZKA |
|
BOOK |
The Tub Grandfather |
PAM CONRAD |
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BOOK |
When I Was Little: A Four Year Old's Memoir Of Her Youth |
JAMIE LEE CURTIS |
|
BOOK |
Where The Wild Things Are |
MAURICE SENDAK |
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BOARD BOOK |
The Rainbow Fish |
MARCUS PFISTER |
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BIG BOOK |
The Three Bears |
BRYON BARTON |
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RESOURCE BOOK |
Singing Bee: A Collection Of Favorite Children's Songs |
JANE HART |
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BOOK & TAPE |
Chicken Little |
STEVEN KELLOGG |
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CASSETTE |
Stories And Songs For Little Children PETE SEEGER |
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VHS |
Where The Wild Things Are |
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PUPPET |
Curious George Puppet |
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EXTRA ITEM |
The Gingerbread Man (9 piece Flannel Board Set) |
Share
Where The Wild Things Are in book and video
formats. Then invite your children to make Wild Thing masks. Use paper plates
and other art materials such as pipe cleaners, crayons, yarn, glue, tongue
depressors, and scraps of fabric. Have a Wild Things Parade. Put on the video
again, but this time darken the TV screen so that all
you have is the sound. Let your children act out the story.
Invite children to wear their favorite color or their favorite clothes
and to bring in their favorite books from home. Suggest that they share them
with the class. Take turns reading their favorite stories aloud.
Ask your children about their favorite toys. After they have named a few
toys, ask them if they can be a certain toy. Start with something simple like a
jack-in-the-box or talking doll. Invite children to take turns pretending to be
a toy while the other children see if they can guess the toys.
Prepare a handout for parents asking them to help their children think
of their favorite song or rhyme. This might be a favorite lullaby or finger
rhyme they have heard since they were little. Maybe this will be something
which is a part of their family folklore, passed on from Grandparent to parent
to child. Have the children teach their favorite song or rhyme to you and the
rest of their classmates.
Have children bring their favorite Teddy Bears to class when you share
Don Freeman's Corduroy.
Listen to the story song "Abiyoyo"
on Pet Seeger's cassette Stories and Songs for Little Children. Share
the picture book Abiyoyo.
Share John Burningham's A
B C then make a group ABC book of favorite things -- "A is for my
favorite Aunt, B is for my favorite bike, and so forth."
Grandmother's Glasses
These are Grandmother's glasses,
(Make glasses with thumbs and pointer fingers)
This is Grandmother's hat,
(Fingers together, raise hands over head)
Grandmother claps her hands like this
And folds them in her lap.
These are Grandfathers glasses,
(Make bigger glasses)
This is Grandfathers hat.
(Make a larger hat)
This is the way he folds his arms
And has a little nap.
(Close eyes and pretend to snore loudly)
What's In the Shop?
(Sung to the tune of "Here we go Round the Mulberry Bush")
What have I got in my toy shop today,
Toy shop today, toy-shop today?
What have I got in my toy shop today?
You tell me?
(Point to a child and have that child answer what's in the toy shop.)
Ask your local children's librarian about more fingerplays,
activities and books such as these recommended titles: