Storytime Share

Origami House with The Three Little Pigs

Adult Aside: Giving your child props to retell the story helps develop narrative skills. This skill helps children later understand what they read.
Submitted by Saroj Ghoting

Roll Your Hands (song) from Toddlers on Parade by Carol Hammett

Words:
Roll, roll, roll your hands
fast as fast can be.

Do it now, let me see

Do it now with me.

Tap, tap, tap your feet
Shake, shake, shake your hips
Roll, roll, roll your hands
[Repeat one or two times all together. Clap together when done.]

Adult Aside: This is a good rhyme to do as you are bathing or diapering your child. Use different parts of the body and words for different actions to help increase your child’s vocabulary. Even though your baby does not understand everything you say, it is important for her to hear you speak. The wider variety of words that your child hears, the larger her vocabulary will be, and the more easily they will later be able to read.
Submitted by Saroj Ghoting

Five Little Ducks (song) from Rise and Shine by Raffi

Adult Aside: Saying animal sounds is the beginning of being able to hear the smaller sounds in words, the beginning of phonological awareness.
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Eensy Weensy Spider (song) from Mainly Mother Goose by Sharon Lois & Bram

Adult Aside: This song does the eensy weensy spider and then next door there is a big, fat spider, and then a teensy weensy spider. Let’s listen to the song first and then we’ll act it out together. Adults, by using the movements can help children understand what the words mean. Here’s an example of opposites.
Submitted by Saroj Ghoting

Something from Nothing by Phoebe Gilman

Read the book. 
Adult Aside: Come back to page  of your choice. Read the sentence that
has rhyming words. Which words rhyme, which ones sound alike? small and all.
What’s another word that rhymes with small? Recognizing rhyming words is
one way to help your child hear the smaller sounds in words.
Submitted by Saroj Ghoting

Blue Sea by Robert Kalan

Read the book. 
Adult Aside: Blue Sea uses the concept of size. You can build your child’s vocabulary by talking about size, like big, bigger, biggest and the same with small, smaller, smallest. You can do the same with other words as well–thin, fat, hard, soft, etc.
Submitted by Saroj Ghoting