{"product_id":"literacy-moves-outdoors-learning-approaches-for-any-environment","title":"Literacy Moves Outdoors: Learning Approaches for Any Environment","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHave you ever thought about what literacy might look like outside of the classroom? It's everywhere! \u003c\/strong\u003eThink about it: the first word a young child may learn to read is STOP, and playing with chalk on a driveway or sidewalk is often a child's first experience with drawing and writing. What if we take reading and writing out of the classroom and see how it is used, authentically, in the real world?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhy is outdoor learning important?\u003c\/strong\u003e There are many proven benefits to nature-based education! Research shows that it can boost academic performance as well as supporting physical, mental, and emotional health. When you provide outdoor and indoor learning experiences, students can expand their knowledge and apply concepts to the real world. Inviting students to connect with nature offers them a chance to use their senses to explore, and they are often more engaged and able to focus better. And let's not forget the benefits of getting kids outside and moving around during the school day!\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHow do you get started teaching literacy outdoors? \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLiteracy Moves Outdoors\u003c\/em\u003e provides the rationale, resources, and information to help you get started, all organized to help maximize learning and connect what you do outside to what you teach inside. Each chapter takes a deep dive into a specific approach to literacy that you can move outdoors, including Literacy to Go, Word Gardens, StoryWalks(R), Interpretive Signage, and Literacy Trails. Discover practical strategies and experiences for supporting literacy development outside of the traditional classroom environment, as well as varied entry points, logistics for implementation, literacy connections, resources, and relevant book lists.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOutdoors can mean a variety of things--a blacktop playground, a small park, sidewalks, or perhaps a patch of woods--and your school setting will shape how you approach outdoor learning. \u003ci\u003eLiteracy Moves Outdoors \u003c\/i\u003eoffers suggestions to adapt to just about any environment, including indoor hallways and communal spaces when you just can't get outside. You will also find some beginning guidelines related to universal design, including efforts to make learning experiences accessible to all students, enabling them to be independent and participate in a variety of ways while helping you consider space, safety, and strategies to support a wide range of literacy and language skills. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExplore and adopt practices that engage students, meet their interests and needs, and give them the tools to communicate and discover themselves and the world around them. Pick one thing that will work for you, and \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003estart moving literacy outdoors! \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heinemann Educational Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51969141735655,"sku":"9780325137544","price":33.27,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_6c5b9d8e-46f6-4595-bc89-d7a8ce163eba.jpg?v=1775863880","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/literacy-moves-outdoors-learning-approaches-for-any-environment","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}