Web Theme Handbook - Building Strong Children - USU

THEMES

75 Preschool Storytime themes, from ABC to Zoo, with books, fingerplays, flannel stories and Toddler Specials

Eighth Edition, April 2010 by Marilyn Freal, Catherine Sarette, Theresa Hadley, and Tina Bixby

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Enriching Storytime ABC Adventure All Mixed Up Animal Friends Animal Sillies Animals: Little Creatures Animals: Not So Wild Animals: Wild Around The World Babies Baths Bears Birds Birthdays Brothers And Sisters Bugs Cats Chickens Christmas Clothing Colors Counting Dance Days Of The Week Dinosaurs Dogs Ducks and Geese

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CONTENTS

Easter Fall Family Farms Feelings Food Friday The 13th Friends Frogs Good's Good and Bad's Bad Growing Things Halloween Hats Holidays Homes I Am Big! I Can Do It! Imaginary Creatures Lost And Found Magic Mice Monkeys Mother's Day Names Night Opposites Outer Space Owls

Pets Pigs Pizza Playing Puzzles Rabbits Rain The Sea Senses Sleep Snow and Winter Spring And Summer Stories With a Moral Thanksgiving Trains Traveling Valentine's Day Vroom! Vroom! Wind and Clouds The Zoo Appendix Contents Audience Participation Songs Humor Toddler Specials

Every Child Ready to Read

Index To Fingerplays

SOURCES

On each page of this handbook, you'll find suggestions for storytime materials grouped together by theme.

Stories: All of the listed picture books are available for checkout through any library in Whatcom County.

Ideas for Participation: Fingerplays and action rhymes are written out in full.

Suggested Enrichments -- These are not available for check out: Flannel stories, big books, pop-up books, puppets, props, and Kamishibai story cards, which have a picture on the front of each card and text on the back for easy reading.

Big Books and pop-up books are available through bookstores and educational catalogs. Kamishibai story cards are available from: Kamishibai for Kids, P.O. Box 20069 Park West Station, New York NY, 10025-1510. Phone 1-800-772-1228

Most of the flannel stories listed in this handbook were taken from The Flannel Board Storytelling Book by Judy Sierra. This and six more how-to books are listed on the following page. They are all in the library catalog.

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FLANNEL STORIES

The following books provide patterns for a variety of flannel stories. They are available through any library in Whatcom County.

CUT AND COLOR, FLANNEL BOARD STORIES by Karen S. Noel

c1985 A set of flannel board story books designed for the busy preschool teacher. Each book contains the actual pieces for the stories, which the teacher can trace, cut and color. Themes are derived from the needs and interests of young children.

FLANNEL BOARD FUN : A Collection of Stories, Songs, and Poems by Diane Briggs

1992. This book contains twenty-eight stories, poems, and songs. Suggestions for age appropriateness are given. Also included are instructions for storytelling, a list of materials needed, and color suggestions.

THE FLANNEL BOARD STORYBOOK by Frances S. Taylor

1986.

THE FLANNEL BOARD STORYTELLING BOOK by Judy Sierra

1987. This is the source for most of the flannel stories listed in this handbook.

FLANNELBOARD CLASSIC TALES by Doris Lynn Hicks and Sandy

Weber Mahaffey / 1997.

STORYTELLING WITH THE FLANNEL BOARD. by Paul S. Anderson,

[1963-70]

SUPER STORY TELLING by Carol Elaine Catron, Barbara Catron Parks,

and Jane Shasky c1986 Creative ideas for using finger plays, flannel board stories, pocket stories, and puppets with young children. With reproducible patterns. Preschool-K, ages 3 - 5.

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OTHER HELPFUL RESOURCES

FIRST VERSES compiled by John Foster

A collection of counting rhymes, finger rhymes, chanting rhymes and action rhymes with charming kid-style illustrations.

I'M A LITTLE TEAPOT compiled by Jane Cobb

This one has 63 themes and is full of books, fingerplays, other suggested resources and tips. It's wonderful!

PLAYTIME RHYMES by Shona McKellar

Presents more than twenty nursery rhymes and songs, such as Incy Wincy Spider, and Hickory Dickory Dock, with step-by-step photographs showing the actions.

RING A RING O' ROSES: Finger Plays For Pre-School Children

compiled by Charles Hansen, and Cynthia Stilley. Published by the Flint, Michigan Public Library, this is the one most comprehensive source for fingerplays and action rhymes. It even includes some in Spanish.

TODDLE ON OVER: Developing Infant & Toddler Literature Programs

by Robin Works Davis The 53 themes have book titles, fingerplays and suggested crafts. It's really appropriate for preschoolers too.

We have made every effort to receive permission to cite and reprint any copyrighted materials in our publications and online documents. Most of our fingerplays, songs, etc. are commonly found in the public domain. If we have omitted proper citation it is unintentional and will be corrected in future updates, upon proper notification.

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