Vocabulary

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**Family Storytime ** **#2 - Vocabulary ** **Animal Antics **  [Music in background as people arrive. Gather people together. Encourage people to sit with their children. Everybody participates! Write nametag for each child and adult as they arrive. Adults can write them too. Use upper AND lower case letters, not all upper case.]   OK, let’s start with our opening song.   Here’s a little way to remember what we are talking about today. Want to **B E T**? <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Today our theme is about Animal Antics, stories about things animals do. Our first book is //The Very Hungry Caterpillar// by Eric Carle. It also has some interesting words in it. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">[Read the book. After reading the book, compare the picture of the tiny caterpillar and the big fat caterpillar.] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Tiny and Big are opposites. Use this word opposite with your children—it is a word for the relationship between things and a good concept for children to know before they go to school. What’s another word for tiny, children? _____ Good!!! What’s another word for big? _____ <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Yes indeed, see all the words you can think of. Adults, what other words can you add to your children’s for tiny? For big? Your child learns more words from YOU because you know more words. Don’t change your words to easier ones, use those big words and explain them if you need to. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Children’s books contain 50 percent more rare words than prime-time television or the conversations of college graduates. How many exposures to a new word do children (and adults) need to be able to use it effectively? (let parents guess) Research shows they need about 12 exposures to a word to add it to their vocabulary bank. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> =<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Book: //Monarch Butterfly// by Gail Gibbons or //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Monarch and Milkweed //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">by [|Helen Frost] or other <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">or other easy non-fiction on butterflies <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> = <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">[Do not need to read whole book, but read a couple of pages or parts of pages that show the words we find in non-fiction books are different from ones we find in stories.] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Now, this is a true book, called a “non-fiction” book, on a specific butterfly, a monarch butterfly. See the orange wings and the black lines? Let’s see what we can find out about butterflies. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Even songs give children new words. Let’s do Eensy Weensy Spider. Some of you know this from last time. Let’s try it all together. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">[Show words on flipchart.] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">[Do actions: demonstrate on a baby doll or stuffed animal for those with babes in arms; demonstrate with spider climbing up an arm for older children; and going thumb to finger for still older children. Repeat it all together two times after the demos.] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">There are book versions of many different nursery rhymes and songs. This one [//Itsy Bitsy Spider// by Lorianne Siomades] shows a picture of a spout. Vocabulary! <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">[Listen to the band that starts with “Little Miss Muffet.” If you want you can cue it up to start just after Little Miss Muffet at Eensy Weensy Spider. Keep listening through “next door lived the big fat spider and then teensy weensy spider”] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Have everyone stand up to act this out as you replay it. The big fat spider can have arms out to the side as if you are climbing a big spout, hands way over head as if a storm is coming with the rain, etc. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Teensy Weensy spider can be with just the tips of your fingers.] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Our next book is about some monkeys that like to copy what others do.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Every Child Ready to Read @ your library® **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Introduction: (Can be before or after opening song) **
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">To All: __**<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> Welcome! So glad you could be here today for our special Every Child Ready to Read @ your library family storytime. In our storytime today I’ll be sharing with you some information on early literacy skills, skills that researchers say are important to help your children be ready to learn to read when they are taught to read in school. The poster here lists all six skills. At each of our six storytimes I’ll highlight one skill. Also, at the end of each storytime, you’ll be able to take home a book to keep and to read over and over again. [Use a host puppet to say this if you like.]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Opening Song: **//<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Open Shut Them, //<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">or song/rhyme of your choice (use same one each time)
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Adult Aside __**<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">: The skill we’ll look at today is Vocabulary, knowing the names of things. First, children understand words for things (like juice, bottle, Mommy), then for feelings and concepts, and then ideas. Books give us three times as many unusual words as we use in everyday conversation. If our children have heard these words before, it will be easier for them to sound them out and recognize them when they learn to read.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">B **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> for use big words and books
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 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Book: //Very Hungry Caterpillar// by Eric Carle **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">[ <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif';">Pronounced like KAHRL]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Activity: **<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; msobidifontfamily: Arial; msospacerun: yes;"> **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Rare Word Search. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> Bring in a stack of picture books and have parents take one each. Ask them to read it with their child for a few minutes and look for “rare” words – words they are not likely to hear in around the dinner table, for example. After a few minutes ask them to share some of the words with the whole group. Record some of the words on a flip chart.
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Adult Aside __****<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">: **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">It has been estimated that children learn an average of 4,000 to 12,000 new vocabulary words each year in situations where they are listening to good books. This may be due to the difference in rare words – words they are unlikely to hear in every day conversations – they encounter reading as opposed to other activities.
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Adult Aside __****<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">: **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> Some children who do not like stories like non-fiction books. You can see that true books introduce children to many different words from the ones we read in stories.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Song: Eensy Weensy Spider **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Song: Big Fat Spider from Mainly Mother Goose, by Sharon Lois and Bram **
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Adult Aside: __**<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> Acting out songs or stories can help the child understand what the words mean too.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Book: //Caps for Sale//, by Esphyr Slobodkina **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">[ <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif';">Pronounced es FEAR sloe BOD kin uh]

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">What’s a cap? [Have the group think of lots of different meanings for the word “cap” <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">(hat, top of a pen or bottle, tooth cap, cap gun, knee cap, limit like salary cap)] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">In this story we are going to use cap to mean hat. The monkeys in this story like to imitate the peddler who is selling caps. When I do something as the peddler, I’d like you all to imitate me. I’ll tell you when. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">[Read the story and have them imitate you with actions, like putting on a cap, looking, etc.] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">This is an interesting book that makes it easy to talk about how the same word can mean different things. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">[Read book or choose some pages to show.] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">For those of you with very young children, use our board books! You’ll see that many of them just have one word on a page. Remember to say lots more! Research has shown that the more you talk with your newborn to two-year-olds, the more vocabulary they have. The amount of talking makes a big difference even for those under age two. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">[Use an example from a board book you have. If your board book has a picture of an apple, you would talk about how the apple is too hard to eat for the baby but the baby eats applesauce, which is made from apples.] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Now let’s move on to a craft you might enjoy that helps develop vocabulary.
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Adult Aside __****<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">: **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> See all the different meanings of ONE word! Talking about the different meanings of words helps build your child’s vocabulary. You can even do this when you go to the grocery stores. Lots of brand names, like Hefty trash bags, have meanings other than the brand itself.
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Adult Aside: __**<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> Our young children like to imitate us. In fact, that is how they learn. Research shows that children who see their parents reading are more likely to become readers themselves!
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Did You Say Pears? //****<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> By Arlene Alda **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Book: Board Book **
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Adult Aside: __**<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> Have a conversation around the pictures in the book. This is one way of helping your baby hear and understand more words.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Each PERSON gets 4 half-sheets of paper stapled together. The person who has the book gets to think of a word. On the first page the person writes down or draws what the word is. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Now, fill the next pages with as many words as you can you both think of, taking turns with your children, related to that first word. //Adults should try to think of words that their children would not know; explain when necessary.// An adult would work with each child’s book and the child(ren) would help with the adults’ books. It works both ways. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">An example: Cat <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Take turns thinking of things—black, Halloween, claws, slinks away and hides, lazy, independent, furry, animal shelter, lion, tiger, cougar, panther, etc. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Today you have seen some ways to encourage your children’s vocabulary. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Remember! Want to **B E T**? <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">I am happy to offer each family a copy of //The Very Hungry Caterpillar//. I hope you’ll enjoy reading and talking about it together. If you have an infant, we have some board books you can choose from. Also, if your child is interested in a particular subject I can show you where some of the non-fiction books are on that topic. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Enjoy! <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">See you next week when you will receive //What Do You Do With a Tail Like This?// [show book] and we’ll talk about Narrative Skills, which are ways to develop your child’s expressive language to increase understanding when they learn to read. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif';">Moths and butterflies sure do look alike, and they both belong to the same insect family (Lepidoptera) but there are a few differences to look for so that you can tell them apart: <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif';">*Butterflies usually rest with their wings closed, while moths rest with their wings open. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif';">By the way, did you know that the largest moth, the Atlas moth, can grow to be over 10 inches wide! <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">
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 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">B **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> for use big words and books
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">E **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> for explain new words
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 * __<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif';">Added info in case needed-- __**
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif';">Difference between moth and butterfly: __**
 * Butterflies have long, thin antenna, while moths have shorter feathery antennas.
 * Butterflies generally gather food during the day while moths are seen more at nighttime.
 * Most moths make a silky cocoon, while butterflies usually make a shiny chrysalis.