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‘Filled with highly interesting activities for pre-school language and social development. The lesson plan format encourages children to participate.’ Frank J. McKendall
About the Author
Betty H. Bunce, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, was born and raised in a bilingual, bicultural community in southern Colorado. She earned a bachelor of science degree in education from the University of Colorado, a master of arts degree in speech from Temple University, and a doctoral degree in child language from the University of Kansas. She received her certificate of clinical competence in speech-language pathology in 1977. Dr. Bunce has taught kindergarten and preschool-age children and has worked as a school speech-language pathologist. She has also taught coursework at the university level in reading and language arts, early childhood education, and speech-language pathology. Dr. Bunce has written several chapters and articles on preschool education, bilingual and bicultural children, referential communication, and intervention techniques for both preschool- and elementary-age children. She has presented workshops to practitioners in the fields of early childhood education and speech-language pathology and has presented papers at several national and state association conventions. She is the director of the Language Acquisition Preschool at the University of Kansas, where an important part of her job is to train speech-language pathology graduate students in conducting naturalistic language intervention in classroom settings. Dr. Bunce fields of scientific interest include child language, language intervention therapy and research, preschool education, English as a second language, and relationships between oral language abilities and literacy skills. Her most recent research has focused on naturalistic intervention techniques and their effectiveness.
Enhance young children’s language skills with this proven play-focused preschool curriculum, drawn from more than 20 years of field testing and outcomes! This highly adaptable, flexible program is a practical and significantly expanded follow-up to the bestselling Building a Language Focused Curriculum for the Preschool Classroom.Teachers will get a year’s worth of lessons: 40 weeks of curriculum plans, including weekly themes, dramatic play activities, art, suggested story and song selections, and group lesson plans laid out in a week-by-week format. Detailed information on themes, lesson plans, and teaching strategies allow this program to be effectively implemented by educators at any experience level.With this proven curriculum and mdash;selected by ASHA for the Department of Education as a model program for Early Reading First and mdash;preschool educators and SLPs willimplement speech and language intervention in the classroomenhance the language skills of all children, including children with language impairments, children from low resource backgrounds, and English language learnersensure quality preschool programming with both the Fidelity Checklist, which helps preschools replicate the program accurately, and the Learning Observation Guide for measuring progresssupport cognitive, motor, and social skill developmentWith these activities, field-tested with more than 500 children in public schools and university training programs, preschool teachers and SLPs will be sure they’re providing the best language and literacy programming for all children. And because the activities are fun and engaging, they’ll get preschoolers excited about learning and improve children’s school readiness.See which domain of school readiness in the Head Start Child Development and Early Learning Framework this book addresses.
F. Eichelberger –
Second Half Good for Homeschooling
I came across this book in my library and showed it to my d-i-l who homeschools the grandbabies. The first half is geared to teachers and testing, but the second half gives day to day activities and ideas for parents (and teachers) to teach their preschool children with fun and educational means. It is a great source of ideas for field trips and how to tie the trips into educational themes. What a goldmine for homeschoolers who are just starting and aren’t sure how to tie it all together. This book would be a great source and help.
David –
Great book!
Very useful book, filled with good ideas and practical tips for engaging lesson plans.
Amazon Customer –
Great lesson plans and ideas
Just what our preschool needed. Great lesson plans and ideas. Kudos to Betty Bunce! Rock Chalk Jayhawk!!