Use of materials, content, and activities found in most early childhood classrooms--Blocks, chalk, crayons, computers, cooking, dolls, dramatics, finger paints, puppets, scissors, storytelling, etc. Makes the books' strategies immediately useful for prospective teachers' first classrooms -- allows these fifty ideas to serve as templates for hundreds of additional strategies.
*Photos, children's art, and pupils' actual writing samples--Accompanying each strategy. Offer a genuine picture of each strategy's desired outcome -- illustrate real children's authentic literacy efforts and show actual children actively engaged in each strategy.

Part I
Children's Speaking/Listening
1.
Emergent Literacy
2.
Saying Words Aloud
3.
Listening
4.
Conversation
5.
Dramatic Play
6.
Bilingual Speaking
7.
Rhyming, Alliteration
8.
Chanting
9.
Singing
10.
Book Reading to Children
11.
Storytelling
12.
Flannel Boards
13.
Story Reenacting
14
Puppets
15.
Book Tapes, Video Tapes, DVDs
16.
Assessing Speaking Progress
Part II
Children's Writing
17.
Emergent Writing
18.
Writing Center
19.
Environmental Print
20.
Alphabet
21.
Names
22.
Easel Painting
23.
Caption Pictures
24.
Finger Painting
25.
Chalk, Crayons
26.
Shared Writing
27.
Invented Spelling
28.
Journals, Literature Logs
29.
Messages
30
Recipe Charts
31
Block Building
32.
Assessing Children's Writing
Part III
Children's Reading
33.
Emergent Reading
34.
Book Center
35.
Visual Literacy
36.
Children Reading Books
37.
Computer Books
38.
Shared Reading
39.
Book Buddies
40.
Big Books
41.
Large Font Words
42.
Sound Words
43.
Syllables
44.
Predictable Books
45.
Song Storybooks
46.
Book Characters
47.
Literacy Bags
48.
Webs
49.
Assessing Reading Progress
50.
Words, Words, Words