to the Children: Birth to 5th Grade (Working With Children)

Working with Children
It’s hard to do something when you don’t do it well. It’s even
harder if you don’t like it. For millions of children, developing
reading skills is just that. Often the best efforts of their
parents and teachers are not enough. However, over the
past decade, a movement to strengthen children’s literacy
has been growing. As part of this effort, Motheread, Inc.,
with the help of literacy experts, has developed the Story
Exploring® curriculum based on multicultural children’s books.
For Teachers
Story
Exploring
®
For Parents
research and federal guidelines for early
childhood and elementary school reading
instruction.
Book 1, designed for use with infants and
toddlers, encourages the youngest learners to
enjoy simple board books. It provides teachers
with activities that promote story enjoyment
and build emergent literacy skills.
Book 2, designed for use with preschoolers,
helps teachers read strategically to children in
ways that will enhance comprehension, build
vocabulary and help translate spoken language
to the written word. Within each lesson,
specific activities promote phonological and
print awareness.
Book 3, designed for use with grades K – 2,
focuses on moving children from phonological
awareness to alphabetic awareness by helping
them link the sound of oral language to
specific letters and words. Teachers are
provided with activities that encourage
children to be actively involved in creating
poetry, songs and stories.
Book 4, designed for use with grades 3 – 5,
encourages children to develop independent
writing skills through activities that focus on
journaling and writing for different audiences.
Each lesson includes opportunities to analyze
and explore the story further.
Story Extenders® accompany each lesson
as a take-home companion piece to Story
Exploring. The Extenders are designed to
support learning in the home environment.
They provide specific activities that foster
creative thinking and problem solving, and
promote conversations between parents
and their children.
Training
The 6-hour Story Exploring training
provides an innovative, research-based
instructional approach and a 4-volume
curriculum for children from birth through
elementary school.
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Learn to encourage a positive attitude
and motivate children about reading
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Examine story as a way to teach
and the importance of narrative
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Learn about the research that supports
the Story Exploring curriculum
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Practice specific strategies and
techniques to build literacy skills
through the read-aloud experience
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Explore ways to use the transfer-tohome activities provided by the
Story Extenders
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