Help young students make the most of time away from the classroom by encouraging them to continue practicing their reading and developing writing skills with a collection of specially selected At-Home items. The Early Emergent At-Home Reading and Writing Kit includes:
- Six titles (Levels A-C) appropriate for Early Emergent readers with free downloadable lesson plans
- Two Danny and Bee Writing Journals (one green, unlined version and one red, lined version)
- Six assorted postcards to keep in touch with teachers and other classmates
- Six bookmarks so readers never lose their place
- One pack of 36 Danny + Friends Stickers for fun and writing inspiration
All the goodies can be stored or easily transported in the brightly colored The Chickens and the Fox tote bag, that is included as part of the kit.
Extended Early Emergent Reading and Writing for an Extended Break from the Classroom
Titles included in the Early Emergent At-Home Reading and Writing Kit are:
- 5.5 x 5.5″ titles All About Danny (1/A), Super Danny (2/C), and Danny Meets Norman (4/C)
- 5.75 x 5.75″ title Grandma Ruth’s Garden (4/C)
- 8.5 x 8.5″ lap-size title Baby Elephant Goes for a Swim (4/C)
- and the 7.25 x 6.25″ nonfiction/informational title Cubs at the Zoo (2/B)
Early Emergent Readers
Early Emergent readers benefit from books about familiar topics that use carefully controlled text and repeated vocabulary. Illustrations are important keys to readers at this level, supporting the decoding of new words. Early Emergent readers are still building a vocabulary of high-frequency words. Having a large vocabulary of frequently used words enables reading that is more fluent and sounds like natural speaking language.
MaryRuth Books offers many fiction and nonfiction/informational leveled readers, suggested and used by Reading Recovery® and Guided Reading educators. Readers at all levels benefit from reading both fiction and nonfiction/informational books. Reading informational books provides a different type of literacy benefit to early readers. Nonfiction texts help young students develop background knowledge, which increases their comprehension ability by enabling them to make sense of new ideas. Additionally, informational texts have the potential to motivate students to read more by tapping into their personal interests. Encouraging students to explore a broad array of informational texts can help them see that the real world is as interesting and amazing as any fictional one.