Am I the only one who references Breakin’ 2 whenever confronted with the 2nd edition of something?
I definitely acquired a copy of the 2nd edition of Every Child Ready to Read a few months ago. And even though I have taken it out of its shrink wrap – and even assembled it! – I’d sort of put that big scary binder on the back burner until today. But now that I’ve attended Every Child Ready to Read in Action, I am much less afraid of the prospect of conducting an early literacy workshop of my very own.
Top Five Things:
1. All of the downloadable slides and notes for the ECRR workshops are editable. Which is great if you’re like me and like to inject your own style into things. (Though I would try to leave my movie quotes at home. I would try valiantly.)
2. Workshops are flexible beasts. Adapt to your audience, your space, and your technology.
3. When presenting the historically hard-to-remember 6 skills (can you name them? I can’t) to her workshop participants, one presenter made them into a flannel board house, with each skill representing a piece of it. Cool, right?
4. Having children write out their own name tags (even if their accompanying grown-up does some handy subtitle work) is a great way to incorporate one of the amazingly easy-to-remember 5 practices (Talk Sing Read Write Play! So much easier!) into your programming.
5. The GeekDad books. I never knew about these until today!