Literacy Beginnings is an amazing, comprehensive resource that helps PreK–K teachers support young literacy learners. It provides teaching ideas based in play, oral language, and inquiry as well as numerous other tools and resources for great first teaching. It even includes the PreK section of The Literacy Continuum, Expanded Edition, that helps you know where children are developmentally and where you can help them go next.

Please enjoy our sample from Literacy Beginnings. It includes:

  • Chapter 1—Growing Up Literate: Prekindergartens for the Future Generation
  • An introduction to the PreK continuum and selections from it
  • Ideas for teaching nursery rhymes, poetry, and songs
  • A sample text set
  • An inquiry project
  • An interactive writing lesson.

 

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