What is the practice?
What does the practice look like?
How do you do the practice?
How do you know the practice worked?
Take a look at sound play with preschoolers
Firefighter Fingerplay
“Once there was a bunny...”
Fun Finger Games
Fingerplays—traditional or made-up games that pair simple rhymes or songs with fun-to-do fnger and hand motions—are enjoyable ways to help young children, ages 3 to 5, build language and memory skills, important parts of early literacy learning.
CELLpractices is a publication of the Center for Early Literacy Learning (CELL), funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (H326B060010). The opinions expressed, however, are those of CELL and not necessarily those of the U.S. Department of Education. Copyright © 2008 by the Orelena Hawks Puckett Institute, Asheville, North Carolina.