Pre k books professional#

I promise you that it will not take long-that you WILL see a change in your students. My experience with Shutterfly photo book making was beyond professional and the book turned out to be a perfect keepsake for my pre-k class. Provide a wide variety of texts, make them accessible for your students and make a point to interact daily with books. Your Pre-K classroom library can be the cornerstone of your preschool classroom. Let them learn about bugs and astronauts, about farm animals and machines, about careers and communities and so much more! Fuel their passion for exploring and growing their brains. Every preschooler I have EVER met loves nonfiction books.

Pre k books full#

Take full advantage of the curiosity of your eager, young students. And please, don’t forget informational text. Allow students to do hands-on activities with what they’ve learned. Interact with concept books.Ĭoncept books can teach opposites, colors, sizes, and more. Let them experience the beauty of lyrical poetry. Use predictable, pattern texts.Īnd texts with no discernible pattern at all.

Expose them to fairy tales and folklore, realistic fiction and fantasy.Īsk them questions and help them LOVE what they read. Encourage them to act out what they’ve heard or draw a picture of their favorite part. Try narrative fiction stories.Įntertain them with narrative fiction stories from modern times to long, long ago and faraway. Go beyond early readers.ĭon’t feel constrained to early readers-you’ll be short-changing both yourself and your students. Use aides and parent volunteers in this capacity whenever you can. Small groups are even better! Students can see the pictures better, ask questions, and discuss. You can read books whole group, and you can even tie them into your curriculum! Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballsis a fun addition to any weather unit, and The Very Hungry Caterpillaris a classic way to kick off your butterfly experiment. Inspired by the life of the first female African American astronaut to go to space. An empowering book with a simple story that encourages children to dream big dreams, and adults to support those dreams. Show students how they can “read” alone, to each other, or to a teacher. Celebrate Diversity Books for Preschool and Pre-K.

Pre k books how to#

Model how to handle books, and how to interact with them. Have a classroom library where students can choose books that interest them-choice and access are HUGE, even for preschoolers.

Build an amazing Pre-K classroom library. So how can you integrate more books into your pre-Kindergarten classroom? Here are 10 of my favorite tips: 1. Books and literacy should be non-negotiable, essential elements to every preschool classroom. They need to touch them, see them, hear them read aloud. The research on early literacy is clear: even if children aren’t yet learning to read, interacting with books prepares them to read. Long before they begin learning to read, young students need to be around books. For young children to love books, they need to experience them.