Creating Readers: Over 1000 Activities, Games, Fingerplays, Songs, Tongue Twisters, Poems, and Stories »

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.

Simple, easy games to learn the sounds of every letter in the alphabet and beginning reading skills.

Children's Literature

Activities to stimulate preschool literacy are found in this excellent text, which integrates "language experience" and phonics instruction to move children along on the road to reading. Five detailed chapters provide games, stories, songs, finger plays, and more to get children interested in the written word. Chapter 5, entitled "Acquiring Reading Skills," includes 200 pages of phonological awareness activities for each letter of the alphabet. A word list and book list are also provided for each letter. The easy to read text is accompanied by suitable illustrations to help teachers and parents visualize some of the activities. An appendix includes assessment checklists, recipes, sound word cards, letter patterns and rebus to enhance reading skills. Early childhood education professionals should have this resource in their libraries. 2000, Gryphon House, Pettenati