Return-Path: <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id i8ELdeR00105; Tue, 14 Sep 2004 17:39:40 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 17:39:40 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <414764C7.1000303@ccsdistrict.org> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Jane Meyer <meyer_j@ccsdistrict.org> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-FAMILY:1923] Re: Lesson Plans X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Status: O Content-Length: 1955 Lines: 15 Alecia D'Angelo wrote: I'm looking for lesson plans designed for PACT, Parent-Time or Adult Education components of family literacy programs. I'd like to find lessons for parents that address issues of advocacy and lessons for PACT time that are designed for children age 5 or older. >Alecia, Think about setting up PACT for opportunities for language and literacy development for your children age 5 and older. Try having center time and whole group time. During whole group time you plan a literacy activity for families and in center time the children decide what they will do with the centers that you have provided. You put things in the centers that promote oral language, reading, and writing. Then coach your parents during parent time with the skills they will need to promote their child's language skills during PACT. In other words, in parenting teach them things like how to ask open ended questions to get more response from their child or how to wait a minute to see what the child will say and then follow the child's lead or how to write what their child dictates on a picture. You need "lessons" for whole group activities, but for centers you need well designed centers and you need to be sure the parents learn in parenting what to do in the centers to promote language development. Get away from centers like an art center where each child makes the same thing and move to centers where children decide what to do with the materials you provide and parents promote language skills while they play. The art center could have toy catalogs, scissors, glue sticks, paper, markers, ABC stamps, books about toys, and a word list of each child's favorite toys. Then let the kids do what they want. Teach the moms to have the kids talk about what they are doing and help their children write words under pictures while talking about the letters and the sounds they make. > > Jane Meyer, Canton Ohio Even Start > > >
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