Starting with Stories: Engaging Multiple Intelligences Through Children's Books

Featuring 100 well-loved children's books, Starting with Stories has more than 1500 activities to actively engage every learning style. First, choose one of the 100 popular children's books to read together. Then enhance the experience with ideas for learning centers, activities, and literacy experiences. Connect with children's eight multiple intelligences through creative and engaging math, art, dramatic play, fine motor, writing, blocks, science, and discovery activities. It's all here--everything you need to bring the magic of good books to all areas of your busy classroom!

Here are just a few of the children's books included:
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
The Doorbell Rang
Freight Train
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
It Looked Like Spilt Milk
In the Tall, Tall Grass
The Itsy, Bitsy Spider
The Little Engine That Could
Make Way for Ducklings
The Napping House
Owl Babies
Silly Sally
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears

Pam Schiller, Ph.D., is an early childhood author, consultant, and highly sought after speaker. She has written numerous articles for early childhood journals, including Child Care Information Exchange and Texas Child Care Quarterly. Pam is the author of five early childhood curriculums, eleven children's books and more than 30 teacher and parent resource books. Patricia A. Phipps, Ed.D, is the Executive Director of the California Association for the Education of Young Children. She has been a faculty member in the Graduate School of Education at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA and in the College of Education at the University of Houston.