The New Kindergarten: Teaching Reading, Writing & More

by Constance Leuenberger

Book Overview

Come into Connie's kindergarten classroom and learn how to plan literacy-rich learning experiences all year long. This complete resource includes activities to build phonemic awareness and phonics skills, mini-lessons on shared reading and writing, and learning-filled morning messages and meetings. Plus, tips on introducing and managing materials, establishing classroom routines, setting up sensational centers, creative ways to connect with parents,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0439288363
• ISBN13: 9780439288361
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Teaching Resources
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.4" x 10.8"
• Age Range: 5 years and up

Customer Reviews

So Much In One Book

Constance Leuenberger's book is an excellent combination of educational philosophy coupled with ideas, ideas, and more ideas! An easy read that would be a GREAT resource for ALL new Kindergarten teachers and a wonderful resource to help experienced teachers remember how important developementally appropriate strategies are. This book is full of great ideas, strategies, and tips that are simple and ready to implement. Another strength is how the author shares thoughts for teachers of half day and/or full day programs. Constance understands how young children learn. She knows that we must teach the "whole" child....from their academic to their social well being. This book is an excellent addition to your professional library.

A "Must Read" for the Kindergarten Teacher

I have had the honor of seeing Ms. Leuenberger adapt the very principals that she writes about in her book in her own classroom on "The Vineyard". Believe me, these strategies and lessons work. I suggest that each school have this book available for their Kindergarten teachers. The suggestions and ideas in this book make "Meeting the Standards" easy and fun.

Great resource for new classroom ideas

I love how this teacher writes about how she sets up her classroom and keeps it organized. She also has some helpful strategies for setting up learning centers, journal writing and how to make your morning message fun, and much more!I think the ideas in this book will be really helpful in the years to come.

A Must for Kindergarten Teachers

THE NEW KINDERGARTEN is a step-by-step guide for creating a nurturing and stimulating kindergarten classroom. It's a combination of traditional practices with innovative twists, contemporary benchmarks with samples to follow, and an interlaced theme of literacy that prevails during all activities of the day. A colleague and I had the same reaction to the book: makes me want to go back to teaching kindergarten so I can try these great techniques.

Taught me more than 4 years of education courses!

As a new teacher of Kindergarten, this book has been the most helpful one I've come across. It provides detailed, specific daily routines, what to do in reading, math, and centers, and how to manage a classroom full of five year olds. Everything suggested is developmentally appropriate, and it gives advice for meeting the standards, full and half day K, projects, books, and songs, and family involvement. No K teacher should be without this book. Its the only one you'll need to know what really goes on in Kindergarten!