by Kerri Charette
Reading Opportunities are Everywhere
I was at the grocery store one day and noticed two items on my list that I did not place there. My large chain supermarket does not stock pee and poop, at least not that I know of. Coincidentally, the night before five-year-old Matt had drawn a poop and pee pizza with extra onions. I think I know who the culprit was.
Reading can be defined as gaining meaning from text. Yetta Goodman, Regents Professor of Education at the University of Arizona and one of the top early literacy experts in the country, states that “the daily literacy activities that often occur incidentally in the home help children learn about literacy as much as story reading and journal writing do.” (I Already Know How to Read, Heinemann, 1996). Goodman, who invented the term kidwatching, encourages teachers to be observers of the language and learning development of their students (www.u.arizona.edu).
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Kerri Charette is editor of Misadventures of Moms and Disasters of Dads, a parenting humor collection published by Moms In Print. She is mother to five children: three boys (nine, eight, four) and two girls (three and two). Kerri is a former kindergarten teacher, president of the local women’s club, committee chair on the PTO and a religious education teacher. Kerri hosts a weekly cable television show, Families in the Making , that brings awareness to adoption issues and is seen throughout Southern Connecticut. Kerri holds an undergraduate degree in elementary education from the University of Connecticut (1992) and a masters degree in teaching reading and language arts (1999) from Eastern Connecticut State University. Learn more about the Misadventures of Moms and Disasters of Dads anthology series at: www.misadventuresofmoms.com. No part of this article may be copied or reproduced in any form without the express permission of More4Kids Inc
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