Storytelling & Book Center

Learning Objectives

Listen & respond to books read by the teacher

Have opportunities to see & toch board books

Listen to and enjoy poems & literature

6 weeks - 6 months

Hold & manipulate books

Anticipate being read to an interacting with the teacher reading

Develop listening skills by listening to repeated stories & fingerplays

6 months - 12 months

Manipulate & examine books that are appropriate for this stage of development.

Listen to stories , poems, rhymes in this center.

Use gestures or words to indicate a book they enjoy.

Participate when story or fingerplay is being read.

12 months - 24 months

Enjoy looking at and manipulating books.

Develop auditory abillities as they listen to stories or tapes.

Participate in beginning literacy activities.

24 months - 36 months