Sing & Sign for Young Children: A Guide for Early Childhood Professionals

Research shows that teaching sign language to all young children has a wide range of benefits, from enhancing social‐emotional and preliteracy skills to supporting positive parent‐child relationships. With Sing & Sign for Young Children, early childhood professionals will have a fun, easy, and highly effective way to teach and practice key ASL sign vocabulary through music and play during everyday classroom routines.

 

Packed with engaging sign language activities and original, kid‐friendly songs, this innovative program was created by a music therapist and early childhood specialist with years of experience working and playing with young children. Dr. Anne Meeker Watson, creator of the SING.PLAY.LOVE.® program, shows you how to transform your daily activities—including arrival, mealtime, shared book reading, free play, and departure—into joyful learning opportunities infused with music, play, and warm adult‐child connections. You'll get everything you need to implement the program when you purchase the book: original songs with lyrics and scores, guidance and tips for beginning the program, pictures of all the signs and hand formations, suggested activities and games, a list of additional resources, and videos modeling signs for each song.


BENEFITS:
  • Strengthens skills essential for academic and social success:communication, social‐emotional, self‐regulation, and literacy skills
  • Combines signing with music—a powerful, motivating, and neurologically rich experience for young children
  • Helps children build positive, meaningful relationships with each other and with their educators and caregivers
  • Infuses the school day with joy and fun, creating an environment that's conducive to sustained attention and engagement
  • Gives children many chances to practice and demonstrate new skills across daily routines
  • Helps support communication development for all children, including dual language learners and children with language delays

DOWNLOADABLE MATERIALS: Put Sing & Sign into action with a complete package of downloadable online materials, including 13 audio recordings, 18 instructional videos, and 18 printable pages of song cards, instructions, and photographs and illustrations of key vocabulary words. (Vocabulary word pages are available in both English and Spanish.)

See how this product helps strengthen Head Start program quality and school readiness
 

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Sing & Sign for Young Children: A Guide for Early Childhood Professionals

Research shows that teaching sign language to all young children has a wide range of benefits, from enhancing social‐emotional and preliteracy skills to supporting positive parent‐child relationships. With Sing & Sign for Young Children, early childhood professionals will have a fun, easy, and highly effective way to teach and practice key ASL sign vocabulary through music and play during everyday classroom routines.

 

Packed with engaging sign language activities and original, kid‐friendly songs, this innovative program was created by a music therapist and early childhood specialist with years of experience working and playing with young children. Dr. Anne Meeker Watson, creator of the SING.PLAY.LOVE.® program, shows you how to transform your daily activities—including arrival, mealtime, shared book reading, free play, and departure—into joyful learning opportunities infused with music, play, and warm adult‐child connections. You'll get everything you need to implement the program when you purchase the book: original songs with lyrics and scores, guidance and tips for beginning the program, pictures of all the signs and hand formations, suggested activities and games, a list of additional resources, and videos modeling signs for each song.


BENEFITS:
  • Strengthens skills essential for academic and social success:communication, social‐emotional, self‐regulation, and literacy skills
  • Combines signing with music—a powerful, motivating, and neurologically rich experience for young children
  • Helps children build positive, meaningful relationships with each other and with their educators and caregivers
  • Infuses the school day with joy and fun, creating an environment that's conducive to sustained attention and engagement
  • Gives children many chances to practice and demonstrate new skills across daily routines
  • Helps support communication development for all children, including dual language learners and children with language delays

DOWNLOADABLE MATERIALS: Put Sing & Sign into action with a complete package of downloadable online materials, including 13 audio recordings, 18 instructional videos, and 18 printable pages of song cards, instructions, and photographs and illustrations of key vocabulary words. (Vocabulary word pages are available in both English and Spanish.)

See how this product helps strengthen Head Start program quality and school readiness
 

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Sing & Sign for Young Children: A Guide for Early Childhood Professionals

Sing & Sign for Young Children: A Guide for Early Childhood Professionals

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Overview

Research shows that teaching sign language to all young children has a wide range of benefits, from enhancing social‐emotional and preliteracy skills to supporting positive parent‐child relationships. With Sing & Sign for Young Children, early childhood professionals will have a fun, easy, and highly effective way to teach and practice key ASL sign vocabulary through music and play during everyday classroom routines.

 

Packed with engaging sign language activities and original, kid‐friendly songs, this innovative program was created by a music therapist and early childhood specialist with years of experience working and playing with young children. Dr. Anne Meeker Watson, creator of the SING.PLAY.LOVE.® program, shows you how to transform your daily activities—including arrival, mealtime, shared book reading, free play, and departure—into joyful learning opportunities infused with music, play, and warm adult‐child connections. You'll get everything you need to implement the program when you purchase the book: original songs with lyrics and scores, guidance and tips for beginning the program, pictures of all the signs and hand formations, suggested activities and games, a list of additional resources, and videos modeling signs for each song.


BENEFITS:
  • Strengthens skills essential for academic and social success:communication, social‐emotional, self‐regulation, and literacy skills
  • Combines signing with music—a powerful, motivating, and neurologically rich experience for young children
  • Helps children build positive, meaningful relationships with each other and with their educators and caregivers
  • Infuses the school day with joy and fun, creating an environment that's conducive to sustained attention and engagement
  • Gives children many chances to practice and demonstrate new skills across daily routines
  • Helps support communication development for all children, including dual language learners and children with language delays

DOWNLOADABLE MATERIALS: Put Sing & Sign into action with a complete package of downloadable online materials, including 13 audio recordings, 18 instructional videos, and 18 printable pages of song cards, instructions, and photographs and illustrations of key vocabulary words. (Vocabulary word pages are available in both English and Spanish.)

See how this product helps strengthen Head Start program quality and school readiness
 


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781681254982
Publisher: Brookes Publishing
Publication date: 12/23/2021
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 192
File size: 43 MB
Note: This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range: 4 Years

About the Author


Anne Meeker Watson, Ph.D., MT‐BC, is the founder of the SING.PLAY.LOVE.® program. Through her writing, product development and workshops, she shares information about the benefits of music and play for supporting early learning and kindergarten readiness and gives easy and practical strategies for embedding both into the daily lives of young children. Her program is being used all over the country and across the globe, most recently making its debut in India, Nepal, and Bangladesh.

Anne has taught music to students from preschool through college levels. She received the Excellence in Teaching award given by the Learning Exchange, Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, and the Kansas City Star. She was a commission member of the Vision 2020 Housewright Symposium on the Future of Music Education sponsored by the Music Educators National Conference.

Anne is particularly interested in developing the self‐regulation and social‐emotional skills of young children. She was invited to share her work at the National Training Institute Addressing Young Children with Challenging Behaviors. She has been a frequent trainer and presenter across the country, including conference presentations for the National Center for Parents as Teachers, National Association for Music Education, ZERO TO THREE, Division of Early Childhood of the Council for Exceptional Children, NAEYC Professional Institute, Head Start's national organization, and the American Music Therapy Association. Her research on music to support early language was published in the International Journal for Research in Music Education. She is the author of the popular Baby Sing & Sign book series. Her music CDs for children won National Association of Parenting Products and Parent's Choice Honors awards.

Anne lives in Kansas City, Missouri with her husband and two furry dogs. When not on the job, she enjoys kayaking, snacking, and dancing to the song Uptown Funk in her kitchen. She believes the world would be a better place if everyone would just take an afternoon nap.

Table of Contents

About the Online Materials

About the Author

Foreward by Becky Bailey

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1 Mealtime and Manners
Mealtime and Manners
 Mealtime Mess
 Picky Eaters
 May I Have Your Undividided Attention?
 Taste and Talk
SONGS TO SING ANS SIGN
Fill the Basket
  Signs to Sing
  Tips for Introducing Fill the Basket
  Fun Activities to Share with Fill the Basket
My Kitchen Door
  Signs to Sing
  Tips for Introducing My Kitchen Door
  Fun Activities to Share with My Kitchen Door
More Signs for Mealtime and Manners
Books to Read and Sign

Chapter 2 Let's Play!
Let's Play!
 May I Have Your Attention Please?
 Sing&Sign Is a Family Affair
 Sing&Sign for the Senses
 Take a Walk on the Wild Side: Sing&Sign in Nature
SONGS TO SING ANS SIGN
Mommy Go 'Round the Sun
  Signs to Sing
  Tips for Introducing Mommy Go 'Round the Sun
  Fun Activities to Share with Mommy Go 'Round the Sun
Roll the Ball
  Signs to Sing
  Tips for Introducing Roll the Ball
  Fun Activities to Share with Roll the Ball
More Signs for Playtime
Books to Read and Sign

Chapter 3 Fostering Relationships, Relaxation, and Rest
Fostering Relationships, Relaxation, and Rest
 The Feeling is Mutual: Mutual Versus Self‐Regulation
 Emotional Literacy
 Supporting Parent‐Child Attachment
SONGS TO SING ANS SIGN
What'll We Do with the Baby?
  Signs to Sing
  Tips for Introducing What'll We Do with the Baby?
  Fun Activities to Share with What'll We Do with the Baby?
Birdie, Birdie
  Signs to Sing
  Tips for Introducing Birdie, Birdie
  Fun Activities to Share with Birdie, Birdie
More Signs for Relationships, Relaxation, and Rest
Books to Read and Sign

Chapter 4 Utilizing Sign and Song for Routines and Transitions
Utilizing Sign and Song for Routines and Transitions
 Routines
 Transitions
 Piggy‐Back Songs and Strategies for Routines and Transitions
 Singing the Praises of Visual Schedules
 The Best and Briefest Advice I can Offer
SONGS TO SING ANS SIGN
Walking Song
  Signs to Sing
  Tips for Introducing Walking Song
  Fun Activities to Share with Walking Song
We're Having a Bath
  Signs to Sing
  Tips for Introducing We're Having a Bath
  Fun Activities to Share with We're Having a Bath
More Signs for Transitions and Routines
Books to Read and Sign

Chapter 5 Sing, Sign, and Read
Sing, Sign, and Read
 The Perfect Combination: Songs, Signs, Books, and YOU
 Singing Picture Books
SONGS TO SING ANS SIGN
Grandpa's Farm
  Signs to Sing
  Tips for Introducing Grandpa's Farm
  Fun Activities to Share with Grandpa's Farm
What Color Am I?
  Signs to Sing
  Tips for Introducing What Color Am I?
  Fun Activities to Share with What Color Am I?
Books to Read and Sign

Chapter 6 Following the Young Child's Lead
Following the Young Child's Lead
 Face Time
 Wait Time
 Play Time
 Self‐Confidence and Competence
 Child's Choice
SONGS TO SING ANS SIGN
Saturday Morning
  Signs to Sing
  Tips for Introducing Saturday Morning
  Fun Activities to Share with Saturday Morning
My World
  Signs to Sing
  Tips for Introducing My World
  Fun Activities to Share with My World
I Take the Music with Me
  Signs to Sing
  Tips for Introducing I Take the Music with Me
  Fun Activities to Share with I Take the Music with Me
More Signs for Supporting Independence
Books to Read and Sign

Pictorial Sign Dictionary
Suggested Reading
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