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Designed for parents to enjoy with children, filled with opportunities for reading aloud and fostering curiosity, this beautifully illustrated anthology offers preschoolers the fundamentals they need to prepare for a happy, productive time in schooland for the rest of their lives. Hundreds of thousands of children have benefited from the acclaimed Core Knowledge Series, developed in consultation with parents, educators, and the most distinguished developmental psychologists. In addition to valuable advice for parents, such as what it means for a child to be ready for kindergarten, special sidebars throughout the book help parents make reading aloud fun and interactive, suggesting questions to ask, connections to make, and games to play to enrich their preschoolers learning experience. Inside you will discover
Favorite poems and rhymesall beautifully illustrated, to be read and recited together, from Robert Louis Stevensons At the Seaside to limericks by Edward Lear and tongue twisters by Jack Prelutsky, plus fun clap along! and fingerplay verses that parents and children can act out together
Beloved stories and fablesstories such as The Three Little Pigs and the African folktale Why Flies Buzz will open whole new worlds of learning and discovery
Visual artsbeautiful reproductions of classic works that foster early appreciation of art history while igniting discussions about shapes, colors, and different styles and media
Musicdozens of songs to sing and dance to, including such move around songs as Head and Shoulders, Knees and Toes and The Wheels on the Bus
Historya delightful introduction to American history, from the first Thanksgiving to Martin Luther King, Jr., with activities and stories parents and children can enjoy together
Sciencefrom exploring the wonder of animals to the physical properties of light, air, and waterfun activities that will let children observe, experience, and enjoy the natural world
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PRAISE FOR
Core Knowledge Preschool
I thought my child was learning a lot in her Core Knowledge preschool classroom, but I had no idea how much until, at the start of kindergarten, her teacher told me that not only had she passed the readiness testshe was at the top of her class!
Parent of preschooler in Baltimore County
Head Start, a Core Knowledge preschool
Core Knowledge preschoolers showed statistically significant improvement in language, literacy, math, and social skills and continued to maintain this advantage through the early elementary grades.
Robert Bradley, Ph.D., University of Arkansas
The students entering kindergarten from the Core Knowledge preschool are standing out in our kindergarten classrooms. Their interest in reading is the most noticeable characteristic. They are reading or ready to read when they enter kindergarten. Their math skills and conceptual understanding are above the rest. Our kindergarten teachers are excited to get students from the Core Knowledge preschool.
Monica Gray, Clarendon Public Schools, Clarendon, Arkansas
Noeila Montaner, The Thinking Child Learning Center, Florida City, Florida, a Core Knowledge preschool
As our first school year comes to a close, we are amazed with the knowledge our students acquired in such a short period of time. The rich literacy component has made story time an exciting and meaningful part of our day. Students look forward to reading and exploring books.
I am so pleased with my childrens progress from using Core Knowledge preschool! They are going into kindergarten ready to read, and I know they will be successful!
Bernice Richardson, preschool teacher, Baltimore, Maryland
We prefer the Core Knowledge preschool program simply because it works. The results are apparent when our young people test for kindergarten.
Shay Gillespie, Head of the Class Learning Center, Monticello, Arkansas, a Core Knowledge preschool
THE CORE KNOWLEDGE SERIES
Resource Books from PRESCHOOL THROUGH GRADE SIX
DELTA TRADE PAPERBACKS
With love to my parents
and my daughters,
Alyssa and Gretchen
L.B.
T HIS BOOK IS INTENDED to be read aloud, actively shared, and discussed with preschoolers. We have provided a brief introduction with advice for the reader, parent or teacher, at the beginning of each section and have also included suggestions and ideas in sidebars throughout the book. Additional advice for building on the foundation provided in the read-aloud selections is also included in the back of the book.
Preschoolers need many different learning experiences in order to get ready for kindergarten. Reading aloud together is just one of them. While the readaloud selections in this book will open up new worlds and begin to lay a rich foundation of knowledge that will serve young children well as they enter school, preschoolers do best when they put their learning to action as well.
For that reason, the Core Knowledge Foundation has created two activity books to accompany this read-aloud anthology, representing two years of fun and engaging educational moments. Each book is full of games and activities, whimsically illustrated in full color and designed to build the skills that young children will need to be fully ready for the early reading, writing, and math instruction they will receive in kindergarten.
What Your Preschooler Needs to Know: Activities to Get Ready for Kindergarten, Volumes 1 and 2, were written by the same team that created this book. These activity books are available for purchase from the Core Knowledge Foundation. They may be ordered by phone at (800) 238-3233 or online at www.coreknowledge.org.
| FOR PARENTS: Introduction by E. D. Hirsch, Jr. |
| At the Seaside by Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Rhyming Words |
| Higglety, Pigglety, Pop! by Samuel Goodrich |
| An Old Person of Ware by Edward Lear |
| Clap Along! |
| Fingerplay |
| Move Around! |
| Beginning Sounds |
| The Teddy |
| Animals Are Living Things Animals have different kinds of bodies Animals move in different ways Animals have ways to protect themselves Animals eat plants or other animals Animals grow up and change as they grow Some animals live and work together Animals live in different habitats |
| Humans Are Special Animals Humans are adaptable Humans have amazing bodies Humans use five senses Humans have babies Humans want to stay healthy |
| Plants Are Living Things There are many different kinds of plants Plants have different parts Most plants start growing from seeds Plants go through stages as they grow Plants make food for people Plants are important in our world |
| Water Is Important Water can take different forms Some things float, some things sink |
| Light Helps Us See People turn on lights at night Light passes through some things but not through others |
| Air Is Invisible, But Its Everywhere Air takes up space Moving air makes sounds Air can push things when it moves |
A H, THE HAPPY YEARS before school, the carefree time before that dreaded day when the young child becomes, as Shakespeare put it:
The whining school-boy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school.
For children who are ready for the school experience, kindergarten and first grade can be exceedingly happy and absorbing times. No creeping unwillingly for them! But that certainly isn't true of children who are not ready. Usually they will not enjoy the challenging early years of schooling. And even their futures might be compromised, since researchers have determined that children who have fallen behind in first grade tend not to catch up academically. As a consequence, the educational importance of the early years, from 2 to 5, has become increasingly well-known by psychologists and policy makers, and recently by the general public. State legislatures are beginning to offer universal preschool programs, available to all children.
WHAT PARENTS NEED TO KNOW ABOUT SCHOOL READINESS
During the past twenty-five years, however, there has been a barrier to effective preschooling, whether at home or at a school. That barrier has been a set of romantic ideas about early childhood, ideas that are widespread among some early-childhood experts and the general public. An American parent who picks up this book may have heard things like the following: that teaching pre-literacy and pre-math skills to preschoolers is unnatural, premature, and develop-mentally inappropriate; that such exposure distracts from healthier, more natural learning experiences; that it can be injurious to the child. These romantic ideas about early childhood have exerted a huge influence in American thought, but they are now thought by leading psychologists to be misleading and oversimplified. There is, in fact, great benefit and great fun to be gained by engaging young children in suitable educational activities.
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