Full Description
While many texts explore ways to plan and implement story times in both school and public libraries, until now no work has brought together extensive book talks and follow-up activities specifically designed to develop thinking skills in young children. This innovative study offers age-appropriate book suggestions with related questions and activities tailored to a variety of thinking skills, including verbal or linguistic thinking, divergent and creative thinking, analytical and mathematical thinking, visual or spatial thinking, and many others.
The program presented in this volume was successfully developed and implemented in the preschool/kindergarten laboratory school of Lindenwood University in St. Charles, Missouri, with 90 percent of the participating children selected for gifted programs in both public and private schools. Ideal for children's librarians, school librarians, teachers of early childhood gifted programs, parents, and homeschoolers, this study provides the tools for making any story hour a "brain power story hour."
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Literacy Versus Letteracy
2. Before We Read
3. Building Word Power: Developing Verbal/Linguistic Thinking
4. Developing the Creative Mind
5. Developing Analytical/Mathematical Thinking
6. Developing Visual Literacy
7. Developing Critical Thinking
8. Developing Positive Relationships and a Positive Self-Image
9. The Natural World
Appendix: Nancy's Choices—Nonfiction Too Good to Miss
Index
