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Let’s Read! Let’s Move! (Language-Experience Themes and Systematic Movement Opportunities for Valuable Extensions) promotes children’s motor development based on literacy-inspired movement experiences.
“We’re in the story!” is often heard, as children respond to the movement environment they help prepare. Story elements such as settings, characters, dialogue, and actions are brought to life as children interact with literature through playful movements. Let’s Read! Let’s Move! brings cognitive, language, social, emotional, aesthetic, and physical benefits because:
- Children learn by doing;
- Children enjoy the process of motor exploration;
- Children benefit from integrated curriculum.
Teachers who use Let’s Read! Let’s Move! plan environments that are flexible and aligned with national or state standards and the overarching goals of their early childhood program curriculum. The National Association for the Education of Young Children’s second standard emphasizes the importance of practices that encourage teachers to purposefully plan for learning in multiple domains, noting, “All domains of child development—physical development, cognitive development, social and emotional development, and linguistic development (including bilingual or multilingual development), as well as approaches to learning—are important; each domain both supports and is supported by the others (Bredekamp et al., 2022).
Standards for prekindergarten children developed by the ...