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

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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.

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!