Books with author Janice Jobey

This sweet rhyming verse takes a playful child from active to quiet bedtime. Various animals demonstrate ways to end a busy day. You will find lots of ways to be “snug as a bug”...cozy, peaceful, comfy, cuddly...and much more. Come along on this sing-song journey with beautiful illustrations to send your little ones to sweet dreams.LITERACY LINKS suggestions provide multiple ways to enhance early literacy skills through--*phonological awareness through rhymes and alliterations*phonemic awareness*alphabetic principle*predictable phrasesDID YOU KNOW? page provides interesting tidbits about the animals featured in this book. The reader can offer these as the book is read as an option. Some animals featured include:*Luna moth*Langur monkey*Kaola bear*Honey bee*Crickets*Moles*Foxes*Ladybug

Take an eventful walk through the PET SHOP! So many pets to see and we want them all! The walk begins with shopping for a dish for a dog but meanders through gerbils, canaries, ferrets, iguanas, and so many more! PET SHOP provides a bounty of rhymes to expand phonological awareness. It also provides opportunities for children to expand vocabulary, language, phonemic awareness, and thinking skills. “Literacy Links” and “Learning Extensions” (divided by each “short”) are provided in the back of the book which offer many ways to engage children in this favorite study topic using multiple learning domains. Children will love the bright colorful photographs and teachers and parents will love the comprehensive guides to promote learning. PET SHOP is part of the Me Complete! Early Learning Program, Volume 2, Unit 5 “Me and My Pet” unit. It may also be used independently. The complete curricular set may be purchased on earlylearning.today.

Join the parade! This fun rebus book takes children through parade fun from interesting sights, tasty food, amazing performances to a community that enjoys community celebrations. Community helpers, performers, groups, and vendors come together to provide a day of celebrating. So, meander through town, fall in behind, and find out where this parade takes you. “Literacy Links” provides suggestions for building literacy skills around the parade topic, while the “Learning Extensions” offers many learning activities across academic domains. * This book provides many opportunities to discuss patriotic parades and community celebrations. * Pause and allow children to read the illustrated words. * Rhyming Words: Note the many words that rhyme. * Share “parade stories”. Have you ever been to a parade? Where? * Be sure to see “Literacy Links” and “Learning Extensions” in the back of this book for other ways to promote literacy and learning! See the learning standard connections for each activity!

Do you know what animal has a beard and horns? How about an animal with wattles and caruncles? Farm animals are very interesting creatures and each one unique. These riddle verses and picture “peeks” will have children thinking and guessing. Just turn the page to confirm your guess with the “big” picture as well as a “More About” page that informs the reader about each animal in the book. Rhymes, riddles, and humor will add fun to learning about animals that live “On the Farm”! * Read the book to simply enjoy the riddles * Read the book to find out more information about each of the featured farm animals on the “More About” pages. * Note the word that rhymes with the answer to the riddle…It can be a clue too! * Listen for alliterative word that describes the answers…”country cow”. * Use “Literacy Links” in the back of the book to promote literacy skills.

Learning to write is a developed skill that is essential to literacy and school readiness and success! This book of “Autumn and Winter Preschool Writing Development Workbook” makes it fun to learn how to hold a pencil, control movements, and develop eye-hand coordination. Rather than starting with lines of alphabet letters to trace, this book offers colorful, attractive exercises to develop writing skills! Your child will enjoy helping a scarecrow through a cornfield maze or a kitten through a pumpkin patch. Weaving a spider web, chasing a bouncing snowflake, a snow bunny or a helping a bear find his den will also delight your child! Twenty writing practice pages are included in this book beginning with easy all the way to challenging, including an alphabet tracing page! You’ll find tips on how to make this book reusable just inside! In addition, you will find connections to learning standards that these activities promote. Look at all the ways you can give your child an advantage on learning this important academic skill! * Learning to write is essential to learning to read! Writing helps children learn about reading and these sets also promote linguistic skills…also essential to literacy! You’ll find lots of things to “talk about” with each page! * Eye-hand coordination and muscle strength are basic skills needed in writing and these books offer opportunities to develop both! * independence and persistence! Who doesn’t benefit from these learning attributes? * Being able to control hand movements promotes self-regulation, the ability to stop, pause, and think…which is carried over to every other learning domain. * Opportunities to cross the midline of the body can promote brain development. * Practice makes perfect! Being able to practice something until it is mastered is not only satisfying, it is skill-building! Children enjoy the simple, do-able sheets! * Many of the sheets also promote problem-solving skills. Mazes are challenging and fun! * Full-color, attractive sheets are appealing to children as opposed to filling in lines of letters. *These sheets begin with basic movements that provide a foundation for more refined work later. The lines are easier to follow and are larger for beginner writers!

Learning to write is a developed skill that is essential to literacy and school readiness and success! This book of “Lines, shapes, and Mazes” makes it fun to learn how to hold a pencil, control movements, and develop eye-hand coordination. Your child will enjoy finding his or her way through a maze, or spiral, or around shapes. Rather than starting with lines of alphabet letters to trace, this book offers colorful, attractive exercises to develop writing skills! Twenty writing practice pages are included in this book and tips on how to make this reusable are just inside! In addition, you will find connections to learning standards that these activities promote. Look at all the ways you can give your child an advantage on learning this important academic skill! * Learning to write is essential to learning to read! Writing helps children learn about reading and these sets also promote linguistic skills…also essential to literacy! You’ll find lots of things to “talk about” with each page! * Eye-hand coordination and muscle strength are basic skills needed in writing and these books offer opportunities to develop both! * independence and persistence! Who doesn’t benefit from these learning attributes? * Being able to control hand movements promotes self-regulation, the ability to stop, pause, and think…which is carried over to every other learning domain. * Opportunities to cross the midline of the body can promote brain development. * Practice makes perfect! Being able to practice something until it is mastered is not only satisfying, it is skill-building! Children enjoy the simple, do-able sheets! * Many of the sheets also promote problem-solving skills. Mazes are challenging and fun! * Full-color, attractive sheets are appealing to children as opposed to filling in lines of letters. These sheets begin with basic movements that provide a foundation for more refined work later. The lines are easier to follow and are larger for beginner writers!

This sweet rhyming verse takes a playful child from active to quiet bedtime. Various animals demonstrate ways to end a busy day. You will find lots of ways to be “snug as a bug”...cozy, peaceful, comfy, cuddly...and much more. Come along on this sing-song journey with beautiful illustrations to send your little ones to sweet dreams.Captivating illustrations and simple language combine to make this book both entertaining and engaging to young children. LITERACY LINKS and DID YOU KNOW? sections provide a variety of ways to read and add learning to fun!LITERACY LINKS suggestions provide multiple ways to enhance early literacy skills through--*phonological awareness through rhymes and alliterations*phonemic awareness*alphabetic principle*predictable phrasesDID YOU KNOW? page provides interesting tidbits about the animals featured in this book. The reader can offer these as the book is read as an option. Some animals featured include:*Luna moth*Langur monkey*Kaola bear*Honey bee*Crickets*Moles*Foxes*Ladybug

This is a story about a "silly raccoon" and a "crooning loon". These two woodland characters have a unique rhyming conversation. This raccoon is not only silly but persistent in having a conversation with the loon...but all the loon can do is croon. Children will love the "silliness" but they will also expand vocabulary with "Crooning Loon" and "Silly Raccoon" Vocabulary! In addition, "Literacy Links" and "Learning Extensions" will add even more "silly" learning opportunities! RACCOON AND LOON is part of the Me Complete! Early Learning Program, Volume 2, Unit 3, “Woodland Wonders” unit. It may also be used independently. The complete curricular set may be purchased at earlylearning.today

These farm animals show young children some healthy and happy ways to live. From stretching, drinking water, and grooming all the way to caring and sharing, these delightful farm animals will inspire great conversations for how to get along in this world. * Read the book to simply enjoy the “rules”. * Read the book to find out about how these farm animals show us how to live a healthy, happy life. * What are some good rules for living a healthy life? * What are some good rules for getting along with others? * Use “Literacy Links” in the back of the book to promote literacy skills. * Use the “Conversational Extenders” throughout the book to enhance thinking skills.

3-4…Across the floor! Join this father-daughter duo as they dance their way across the floor and into your heart and memories! A little girl and her daddy dance through the house on his shoes and in his arms. An old favorite nursery rhyme turned modern day story, provides a familiar scene with which many children can relate. The predictable phrases and rhyming words are important strategies for developing phonological awareness in young children, an important skill for developing early literacy. Captivating illustrations and carefully selected words not only entertain but engage children in Native American cultural awareness, numeracy, and literacy. LITERACY LINKS page provides multiple ways to promote literacy skills as you read this book. Literacy skills include: Predictable text Comprehension Phonological Awareness Vocabulary Letter and Word differentiation Numeral recognition This book is also part of the MeComplete Early Learning Program, Volume 1, Unit 3, Me and My Family. The complete curricular set may be purchased at earlylearning.today.

One little snowflake tumbled slowly down. Two little snowflakes twirled around and around… What child doesn’t love snow? These falling snowflakes not only teach math, but literacy too! Snowflakes fall from the sky in many designs and patterns. Children can count by 1’s from 1 to 20 and then in groups of 5’s and 10’s all the way up to 100. And when you are finished counting, children can choose among three endings for a fun snowball finish! “Literacy Links” and “Learning Extensions” support the adult in promoting learning across academic domains! Teachers, parents, and children will all love how teaching math can be as fun as snowflakes falling from the sky! ONE LITTLE SNOWFLAKE is part of the Me Complete! Early Learning Program, Volume 1, Unit 5, “WINTER TIME” unit. It may also be used independently. The complete curricular set may be purchased at earlylearning.today

This endearing story of Wood Duck hatchlings jumping from their nest high in a tree will delight and entertain young children. They will learn about the habitat and habits of these interesting “tree ducks”. Children will also count down from 12 to zero as each baby bird zooms to the ground. Each little duck has their own way of jumping but find out what happens after they all reach the ground! Science, social studies, math, and literacy are all rolled up in this “nest”! While children will love this story, the book also provides multiple ways to support teachers in teaching literacy, math, science, and social studies through "Literacy Link" and "Learning Extensions".* This book provides many opportunities to count eggs and ducks, as well as to count down to zero. * Science: Discuss the life cycle of ducks.* Learn about Wood Duck habitat and nesting.* Diversity: Discuss how we all move (jump, walk, etc.), but we may also have our own unique ways of doing so!* Rhyming Words: There is a set of rhyming words on each of the page spreads. For example, “Flap” and “nap” rhyme.*Number to Numeral: Find the camouflaged numeral on the number pages. Count the ducks. Subtract “one”–There were five ducks, but one jumped, so now how many are there?”* “Just Ducky” Vocabulary (find this at the end of the story) will help you expand children’s vocabulary with definitions and/or synonyms for how words are used in this book! * Be sure to see “Literacy Links” and “Learning Extensions” in the back of this book for many other ways to promote literacy and learning! See the learning standard connections for each activity!