Starting With Stories: Engaging Multiple Intelligences Through Children's Books [Paperback]

Pamela Byrne Schiller (Author), Pat Phipps (Author), Kathy Ferrell (Illustrator), Debi Johnson (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 2006

Featuring one hundred well-loved and easily available children’s books, Starting with Stories has more than 1,500 activities to actively engage every learning style. This literature-based resource book combines quality children’s books, learning centers, and multiple intelligences to give teachers a comprehensive, creative curriculum.

Choose one of the one hundred popular children’s books to read together. After reading, enhance the learning with ideas for learning centers, literacy experiences, and small-group interactions. Connect with children’s eight multiple intelligences through these creative and engaging math, art, dramatic play, fine motor, writing, blocks, science, and discovery activities. It’s all here—everything you need to bring the magic of good books to all areas of your busy classroom!

Here are just a few of the children’s books included:

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
The Itsy, Bitsy Spider
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
The Little Engine That Could
The Doorbell Rang
Make Way for Ducklings
Freight Train
The Napping House
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
Owl Babies
It Looked Like Spilt Milk
Silly Sally In the Tall, Tall Grass Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears

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About the Author

Pam Schiller, Ph.D., is an early childhood author, consultant, and highly sought after speaker. She has written numerous articles for early childhood journals, including Child Care Information Exchange and Texas Child Care Quarterly. Pam is the author of five early childhood curriculums, eleven children's books and more than 30 teacher and parent resource books. Patricia A. Phipps, Ed.D, is the Executive Director of the California Association for the Education of Young Children. She has been a faculty member in the Graduate School of Education at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA and in the College of Education at the University of Houston.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Gryphon House (September 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0876592973
• ISBN-13: 978-0876592977
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #713,265 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good Teacher or Parent Guide, January 29, 2007

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This review is from: Starting With Stories: Engaging Multiple Intelligences Through Children's Books (Paperback)

Starting With Stories by Pam Schiller and Pat Phipps is a pre-school teacher's guide to engaging multiple intelligences through children's books. The 100 books selected are considered among the best for helping pre-schoolers delight in stories and also learn other skills such as vocabulary and sentence structure, rhye, alliteration, onomatopoeia, visual recognition of upper and lower cas letters, and understanding the many ways in which print communicates. Each double page illustrated spread describes the child's book recommended, tells what the skills the child will learn are, and suggests special activities to follow the reading of the book. Learning acitivites include art, discovery, gross motor development, listening , math and science, and thinking about what was read. This is a very good guide to help anyone working with pre-schoolers.

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful!, October 4, 2011

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This review is from: Starting With Stories: Engaging Multiple Intelligences Through Children's Books (Paperback)

I absolutely love this book. First off, the book selections are wonderful. My boys (18 months - just along for the ride, and 4 years old) have loved all of them.

One of my favorite things about it are the techniques used to expose children to language and writing. For example, she suggests having children copy words you write/type on index cards with magnetic letters. She discusses onomatopoeia and alliteration in such fun ways.

I am so glad I bought this!