Books
Books in Bloom: Creative Patterns & Props that Bring Stories to Life
Complete storytime programs based on seasonal themes! Sharing the delights of books, poetry, rhymes, and songs can help pave the way for a child’s ultimate reading success. Whether you are a new librarian, a teacher, or an experienced storyteller looking for new ideas and inspiration to enhance your storytime sessions, the program outlines, suggested segues, scripts, and patterns included in Storytime Around the Year provide you with a springboard of ideas and an array of “ingredients” to sprinkle into your storytimes for years to come. Seasonal themes include: mittens, valentines, eggs, rain, gardens, bugs, picnics, trips, apples, scarecrows, food and cookies.
Storytime Around the Year
Highsmith / Upstart Books, 2008
Complete storytime programs based on seasonal themes! Sharing the delights of books, poetry, rhymes, and songs can help pave the way for a child’s ultimate reading success. Whether you are a new librarian, a teacher, or an experienced storyteller looking for new ideas and inspiration to enhance your storytime sessions, the program outlines, suggested segues, scripts, and patterns included in Storytime Around the Year provide you with a springboard of ideas and an array of “ingredients” to sprinkle into your storytimes for years to come. Seasonal themes include: mittens, valentines, eggs, rain, gardens, bugs, picnics, trips, apples, scarecrows, food and cookies.
Mother Goose Rhyme Time Series (Limited Availability)
Engage the children in your library or classroom with traditional nursery rhymes! Each book includes coordinating large size punch-out character sets provide tools and techniques to help you successfully weave nursery rhymes and related activities into the fabric of your storytime programs and curriculum.
Each chapter features one nursery rhyme, including variants, history of the rhyme, musical notation, instructions for preparing and using the punch-out character sets, storytime ideas, early literacy activities, take-home rhyme pieces and additional extension ideas. The activities follow seven focus areas recommended for early literacy programs: print motivation, language and vocabulary, phonological awareness, print awareness, narrative skills, letter knowledge and parent/caregiver connections.
Mother Goose Rhyme Time: Animals
Upstart Books, 2006
Book ISBN: 978–1932146660
Animals Bulletin Board Set (National School Products)
Mother Goose Rhyme Time: Animals features the following rhymes: Baa Baa Black Sheep; Blow, Wind, Blow!; Chook, Chook, Chook; Dickery Dickery Dare; Hickety Pickety; and Hickory Dickory Dock.
Mother Goose Rhyme Time: Night
Upstart Books, 2006
Book ISBN: 978–1932146653
Night Bulletin Board Set (National School Products)
Mother Goose Rhyme Time: Night features the following rhymes: Diddle Diddle Dumpling; Hey Diddle Diddle; Jack Be Nimble; Little Boy Blue; The Man in the Moon; and There Was an Old Woman Tossed Up in a Basket.
Mother Goose Rhyme Time: People
Upstart Books, 2006
Book ISBN: 978–1932146677
People Bulletin Board Set (National School Products)
Mother Goose Rhyme Time: People features the following rhymes: Here Am I; Little Bo-Peep; Little Jack Horner; Mistress Mary; Rub-a-Dub Dub; and There Was an Old Woman Lived Under a Hill.
