Session 3

Session 3: Language Development

 

Learning Activity 3: Wonderful Books for Children

 

Focus

 

Stories, finger plays, songs, and poems are so important for young children. Sharing information about appropriate books for children can help child care providers promote the language development of children.

 

Directions

 

Step 1: Find a book that you feel is appropriate for use with children in the child care facility. You may check the public library, your school library, the library at the child care centre, or your home.

 

Step 2: Complete Learning Activity 3: Wonderful Books for Children.

 

Step 3: Investigate diverse interactive methods that can be used to retell the story (e.g., finger play, clothesline story, flannel board, puppets, action song, and so on.) In your investigation, you might talk with other child care providers, search the Internet, read library books that focus on child development, speak with parents of young children, or ask young children.

 

Step 4: Choose a method for retelling the story. In your decision-making process, ask yourself the following questions:

• Do I have access to the necessary supplies, props, and so on?
• Is the method suitable to the story?

Step 5: Plan how you will retell the story in an interactive way to a small group of age-appropriate children. Remember, the purpose of your retelling should be to engage the children in developing their language skills.

 

Step 6: With a peer or friend, or a group of peers or friends, practise retelling the story using the method you chose. Using the Peer Rubric for Learning Activity 3: Wonderful Books for Children, have at least one peer or friend assess your performance. Make any necessary adjustments to your work. Practise as many times as you feel necessary.

 

 

Step 7: In consultation with your teacher, determine how you will demonstrate your interactive retelling of the story. You might use one of the following methods to demonstrate your teaching to your teacher:

• Make a recording in a format that is acceptable to your teacher.
• Arrange a time and place to meet with your teacher.
• Retell the story while on a webcam with your teacher.

Step 8: Perform your interactive retelling of the story for your teacher.

 

 

Checking In

 

 

 

Save your completed learning activity and your peer assessment in the appropriate sub-folder of your course folder.

 

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