Tray Tasking: Activities that Promote Reading and Writing Readiness / Edition 1

by Victoria Folds

Overview

Tray Tasking teaches parents and educators how to engage children in activities that promote whole body preparation for reading and writing skills while having fun. Children use common household items in new ways that lead to strengthened eye and hand coordination for future reading and writing success. A child manipulates the items organized on a tray using movements that require them to engage their eyes, arms and hands in left-to-right and top-to-bottom directions-the same directions used for reading and writing. The tray arrangements promote respect for materials and orderliness in a child's world, and they reinforces that there is a place for everything and everything should be in its place. Teachers will value the opportunities tray tasks provide for authentically assessing children, and they'll find the Tray Task Chart useful in tracking children's progress. This book guides parents and teachers in involving children in activities that promote whole body preparation for reading and writing skills while having fun.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781401872267
Publisher:	Cengage Learning
Publication date:	03/15/2005
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	8.30(w) x 10.80(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Victoria Folds is the Director of Curriculum at Children of America and an Adjunct Professor at Broward Community College and Palm Beach Community College. She is a member of the NCCA in which she served on the Board of Directors for 5 years, and is a 25-year member of the NAEYC.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction and Purpose of Tray Tasking. Chapter 2: Dry Transfer Tray Tasking Activities. Chapter 3: Wet Transfer Tray Tasking Activities. Chapter 4: Arranging Your Small Manipulatives. Chapter 5: Preparing Your Language Center. Chapter 6: Accommodating Your Science Center. Chapter 7: Parent Notes.

Editorial Reviews

"I am not aware of any books that define this teaching strategy as well as this one has the potential to do."

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