Maggie is ready for her next adventure – she will be zooming
into preschools everywhere with her bag of teaching tips, meaningful lessons,
and suggested materials guaranteed to excite your eager learners.
Fresh from a successful school readiness workshop at the
National Head Start Conference in Washington, D.C., Maggie’s creators share
their classroom-tested ideas. Check back in July when we’ll be adding oodles of
fun to Maggie’s Big Home.
To get you started, we hope you’re thinking about how to
develop phonemic awareness with your young learners. Try using Anna Dewdney’s delightful Llama
Llama books from Penguin Publishing. Read aloud the gentle rocking verse,
pause, and invite young listeners to supply the rhyming word. Remember - knowing how to rhyme is an important step in
developing good readers.
And for summer fun, download our coloring sheet. Encourage
children to add details showing what this llama is doing. Invite children to
think about real llamas as they complete their pictures.
Be sure to visit our parent site at www.missmaggie.org for lots of educational
games and cartoons.
