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Overview
Everyone knows how important it is to read with children. But how can you continue your child's learning experience and enjoyment of a story once you close the book?
In her engaging new book, Peggy Kaye shows parents and teachers how to play learning games based on classic children's books. Games with Books features 14 picture books, from Harold and the Purple Crayon to Bluesberries for Sal and 14 chapter books, from Winnie the Pooh to Charlotte's Web. For each book, Kaye provides a summary and then offers three to four games that will keep kids entertained while they are practicing valuable reading, writing and math skills. The games require few materials and can easily be played both in home and at school. They cover a wide skill and age range. In addition to her creative and fun approach to learning, Kaye offers a wonderful bonus in her new book: a selective list of great children's books that no reader — young or old — will want to miss.
Synopsis
Everyone knows how important it is to read with children. But how can you continue your child's learning experience and enjoyment of a story once you close the book?
In her engaging new book, Peggy Kaye shows parents and teachers how to play learning games based on classic children's books. Games with Books features 14 picture books, from Harold and the Purple Crayon to Bluesberries for Sal and 14 chapter books, from Winnie the Pooh to Charlotte's Web. For each book, Kaye provides a summary and then offers three to four games that will keep kids entertained while they are practicing valuable reading, writing and math skills. The games require few materials and can easily be played both in home and at school. They cover a wide skill and age range. In addition to her creative and fun approach to learning, Kaye offers a wonderful bonus in her new book: a selective list of great children's books that no reader — young or old — will want to miss.
Publishers Weekly
Peggy Kaye, author of Games for Learning, suggests using The Carrot Seed to teach early measurement concepts and Charlotte's Web to introduce multisyllabic words in Games with Books: Twenty-eight of the Best Children's Books and How to Use Them to Help Your Child Learn from Preschool to Third Grade. Each activity comes with suggested grade levels, necessary materials and a listing of the skills addressed, illustrated with Kaye's line drawings. (Mar.) Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.
Editorials
From the Publisher
"An extremely valuable resource for parents."
— Betty Holmes, Director, United Federation of Teachers, Dial-a-Teacher
"Kaye is a master at turning learning tasks into easy games." — Library Journal
Publishers Weekly
Peggy Kaye, author of Games for Learning, suggests using The Carrot Seed to teach early measurement concepts and Charlotte's Web to introduce multisyllabic words in Games with Books: Twenty-eight of the Best Children's Books and How to Use Them to Help Your Child Learn from Preschool to Third Grade. Each activity comes with suggested grade levels, necessary materials and a listing of the skills addressed, illustrated with Kaye's line drawings. (Mar.) Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.Children's Literature
This well-known author of learning games for children has taken 28 familiar children's books and designed games to extend the learning of preschool to third grade-age children. In the introduction, the author stresses the importance of adults reading to children. She suggests that adults, whether parents or teachers, extend the learning by playing games using a particular text. Each of the 28 books has several suggested games. For the preschool book, The Carrot Seed, the author suggests measuring with carrots, painting with carrots and planting your own carrot seeds. The Borrowers, for first, second or third graders, is a story about a family of rats who borrow from the people in the house where they make their home. Ms. Kaye has designed activities for this book that foster working on a creative, long-term project or that foster language skills. Each activity wisely lists the grades for which it is appropriate, the materials needed and very important, the skills being practiced. Activities designed to extend learning should always have developmental goals in mind, and not exist just for the fun of it. Ms. Kaye usually provides the scenario that led to her development of each game. In other words, she explicitly relates a learning need that the activity is designed to fulfill. This is an aid to parents who may have difficulty deciding on the appropriateness of an activity or who need ideas on using books to extend learning. It would also be useful for literacy activities at school. 2002, Farrar, Straus and Giroux,— Meredith Kiger