Supporting Early Learning through Rhymes and Stories

ISBN-13: 9781032415468 / Twarda / 2023 / 144 str.

Hilary Minns

Opis

This book shows how adults can bring rhymes and stories to life with young children and support children’s early steps in communication and literacy. Focusing on the use of rhythm, rhyme and repetition in nursery rhymes and traditional tales from around the world, it provides a wealth of practical ideas to inspire.

Spis treści

Part I Theoretical and pedagogical perspectives

Chapter 1 The power of rhymes and stories and your role in bringing them to life

Chapter 2 The importance of rhymes and stories for children's learning and development

Chapter 3 The art of reciting rhymes and telling stories

Part II Rhymes and stories

Chapter 1 Boots and shoes

Chapter 2 Baking bread

Chapter 3 Growing things

Chapter 4 Crocodiles and monkeys

Chapter 5 Hungry little mice

Chapter 6 Wind and sun

Chapter 7 Precious toys and playthings

Chapter 8 Water for life

Chapter 9 Cats and kittens

Chapter 10 Lots of billy goats

Afterword

O autorze

Sarah Cousins (EdD) is an experienced early years teacher, leader, consultant and lecturer. She held various leadership roles at universities, including the University of Warwick. Sarah has published on love in early years, emotional and social learning in early years, mathematics anxiety and adult learning in Higher Education.

Hilary Minns (PhD) was an early years teacher and headteacher of a primary school in the Midlands before becoming a lecturer at the University of Warwick. Her publications include works on young children's emergent literacy learning in a variety of historical, social and cultural settings.