University Park, PA- With a focus on making literacy activities exciting
for adults and children alike, the Pennsylvania Center for the Book
announces four Book-Centered Integrated Lesson Plans for adult
education, parenting education, and early childhood education, as well
as an interactive lesson for children and adults learning together.
The featured subjects are dinosaurs, sports, community, and nature. The
latter lesson plans use books by Pennsylvania writers: A Tree for Me by
Nancy Van Laan (illustrated by Sheila White Samton) and In the Woods:
Who's Been Here? by Lindsay Barrett George. Both books are tied to
public libraries' statewide summer reading program-"Discover New Trails
@ Your Library." Focusing on Pennsylvania plants and animals, the
nature lessons include games and puzzles, a scavenger hunt, and a
nature notebook.
The Center is also releasing an online Web guide, Stepping into Books,
to help enhance your toddler's language and literacy learning. Designed
for 1- to 3-year-olds and their parents and caregivers, Stepping into
Books has sections on language development, how to talk to toddlers to
help language development, how to read to your toddler, and stretching
literacy into play, as well as bibliographies of books for toddlers and
their families. Stepping into Books joins two other online guides in
the Family Literacy Activities section of the Center's Web site:
Growing into Books, for 3- to 5-year-olds, and Getting Started, for
adults who are reading to young children for the first time. View the
lessons plans and guides at: www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu/familylit/.
The Center's family literacy activities are available online and may be
printed and reproduced without fees and copyright restrictions. The
mission of the Pennsylvania Center for the Book is to study, honor,
celebrate, and promote books, reading, libraries, and literacy to the
citizens and residents of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Stepping
into Books and the Book-Centered Integrated Lesson Plans are
co-sponsored by the Goodling Institute for Research in Family Literacy;
the Institute for the Study of Adult Literacy; the Penn State
University Libraries; and Pennsylvania Pathways, under the direction of
the Pennsylvania Department of Welfare.
The Pennsylvania Center for the Book, sponsored by the Penn State
University Libraries, is one of fifty-one similar organizations
nationwide established by the Center for the Book in the Library of
Congress. Public service hours are Tuesday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and
Wednesday, 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., in 201B Pattee Library. For more
information, visit www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu or contact Steven L.
Herb, director, Pennsylvania Center for the Book, 814-865-0401.
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