I am back!

Hi EC Teachers,

Have you been hired by a school board? Are you glad? Or are you back to your classroom?  Are you required to make alot of changes in your teaching? Are you overwhelmed by the new job requirements. Maybe the lessons plans on the blog will help you. They are aligned with the new EC curriculum and the standards of the IRA. The guidelines are research-based.

The blog is back in service with major changes. The content has been impoved and the navigation is easier. The content has been aligned with the Ontario Curriculum for the Early Years. There a few free lesson plans.

After a full year of giving away all the lesson plans, I had to start charging a fee to be able to pay for the expenses of running the blog. My biggest expense is having to buy  children’s books, professional books . T

Fifteen more lesson plans are in the queue to be uploaded. They will appear at a pace of 5 per month.

LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK OF THE “NEW” BLOG.moniquetoronto2000@yahoo.ca

Monique Richard

Professor Emeritus

School of ECE, Ryerson University

We are under construction!

During our summer refresh, the Emergent Readers site will be down most of the time. On occasion however, to facilitate our testing, it may appear to be live as it is now.

Please note that the site may not look or function properly during this time. We are expecting to launch our updated site on August 1, 2010.

Please stay tuned! and enjoy your summer

Additions to lesson plans

Hi all,

I made additions to two lesson plans: “Nicolas where ahve you been” and “Owl Babies”. It involves suggestions for vocabulary instruction fro ELLs children which kis very challenging for many teachers as it requires the ability to bride experience and new learning: check the section called “Preparation”. I have done a content analysis of target words for each book. This guideline is based on research competed in 2002 by Beck and other adn Vaughn, Mathes and others (2005).

Monique

Owl Babies

I have made substantial additions and corrections to this LP. Please look at it. Monique

New Lesson Plans

Dear teachers,

If you are looking for lesson plans based on books you have never read or may have read but you don’t know  how to develop literacy activities, check “The Cobbler’s Holiday”. It is a incredabibly well written and illustated “pourquoi” tale. It is equal in quality with “Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’ s Ears”.  It is a folktale from Pakistan, retold by Musharraf Ali Farooqi and illustrated by Eugene Yelchin. Farooqi is a Canadian author.

“Nicolas, where have you been?” by Leo Lionni is a strong story for studying a character and visual literacy.

Don’t miss  “Diary of a worm” ppublished in early January.

Let me know what you think and what you would like to read. monique@ryerson.ca

MONIQUE

New Lesson Plans

The Balloon Tree

The Pea and the Princess

Alexander and the wind-up Mouse

Diary of a worm

Force and Motion A Thematic Unit

Read to Me

Hi,

For few years already, the governemt of Nova-Scotia has been giving a liteacy kit to the families of newborns. See www.readtome.ca

Haiti

You will find a booklist of stories, nonfiction books about earthquakes, fear, folktales etc. Tap “Haiti” in the search engine to access it.

A Book published by a Ryerson’s Grad!

Sometimes That’s Me by Jerry Lee. 

 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
 
Jerry Jeremiah is a writer and holds a degree in Bachelor of Arts in Early Childhood Education from Ryerson University. Having immigrated to Toronto at the tender age of four, learning to write and read English was definitely a challenge to be met head on. His childhood influences include the works of Shel Silverstein, Roald Dahl and Robert Munsch.  
ABOUT THE THEORY (RATIONALE)
 
This Children’s book based theories learned in the area of children’s (social) emotional intelligence. This book includes underlying themes of personality development (development of emotions), discovery of self, gender-typing/sexuality, relationships and promote a healthy framework for exploring social emotional intelligence with children.
 
 
ABOUT THE BOOK
Sometimes That’s Me is a chilldren’s book that explores different emotions being illustrated by different situtations within various family configurations with fun! Follow me on a journey of self exploration with family, friends and caregivers whom I love and the feelings that arise from my time with them.

International Reading Association

Their read.write.think.org website  has been revamped. Check it out.