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Show Proposals Would Have Kids Learning Earlier B Continued from A-1 need to point out the pictures or emphasize the picture's labeis until the babyis 7 monthsold. Educators hope that by the time children enter kindergarten. they are familiar with literature they’ve been read to, they understand the concept of words Tto9 other kids in your class aren't, for thestate.“It’s very difficult to make up groundifall of that expo: sureis left to the schools.” babyin your lap while sharing the book. Recite nursery rhymes andsing songs. 12 to 18: months, Since the brain developscritical connections and patterns between infancy and age 4, the | he mammoth study, called Lost Lives, was put together by four Belfast journalists and pub: > Respondto the baby's babbling. Start to play “hide and seek.” Provide easy-to-handie books made out of cardboard or ones with thick pages. To increase vocabulary, read the labels and pointoutpictures. 9to 12¢— manihs and the they're building on knowledge they already have and you're arting fromscratch, Dona Carling, an assessment specialist s memorializing each and victim of Northern Ire i bloodshed, more than3,600 and viny! books. Hold the months the written language gut-wrenching portrait of three decades of violence: brief biogra- Engagein vocalplaywith the baby, whowill start to use maybe havea favorite book. That's not the case with half ile or no exposure to literature; some could not recognize the front or back ofa book. “When you start out school and you're sort of clueless as to THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BELFAST, NorthernIreland It's a comprehensive — andoften consonant sounds andlearn to take turns. Provide cloth the state's preschool-aged children, according to pre- kindergarten assessments done Observe your child's first words and be aware babies can understand far more words than they can say. Watch for pretendplay. Help child associate words with events. Provide bookswith familiar activities and objects. Use the following steps while reading: get the baby’s attention, ask the baby a question about an object, wait for a response, give an answer if necessary and give feedback. > Observe your child's use of words. Encouragepretendplay. Provide books withfamiliar characters, objects and events, books with songs and booksthattransition between pointand-namebooks andstory books. Give descriptions of objects as you read about them and letthe child fill in some of the words. Help child relate things in the bookstothingsin his ‘ownworld. foundation for school success is formedlongbefore children enter Observeyourchild taik jing in sentences. Talk with child about events and experiences. Provide bookswith simple, predictable stories and look for books that would interest your child. Talk with the child about the story andillustrations. Encourage moredetail led pretendpiay. aclassroom Traditionally, parents have tried to boost learning in their young children with flash cards and worksheets,said Julie Baker, the state’s early childhood spe- cialist and director for the Centers for Families in Education. But that approach tends to backfire and kindle a hatred for learn: ing, she said. Baker said her workshops will be fun, “so it looks like play s like play, but it’s liter ~ One workshopfocusesonliter: acyand will be offered in January to parents and child-care providers on a pilot basis. Baker hopes to get about $300,000 a year from the Legislature andoffer it to all parents for free. A University of Utah professor wrote the curricu: jum and the programis endorsed by the Utah Association of Educa tion of Young Children. Bakerwill emphasize pretend play, encouraging children to write menus and sales slips as they play restaurant or make up recipes as they pretend to cook. Children can also read to their animals orplay withletter mag- nets onthe refrigerator. “There's many, many, many by authors in volume 8 years in the making make cooing vowel!sounds. Provide books that have simple large pictures or designs andthatarestiff so they stand ontheir own. and howbooks are read, and Steve Baker TheSalt Lake Tribune parents — get hundredsofcalls about this very thing — [who] want this help. ates want this keyin the Already, the idea has caught the interest of some statelegisla- tors and Leavitt, who met with Newbold this week. Newbold eventually hopes toget state fund- ing and offer the program Jordan School District’s proposal Newbold said he waspartly spurred to create a program statewide. goal ofgettingall students to read concept, though the conversation because of Gov. Mike Leavitt's at their grade level bythe third grade. Newbold said his teachers need more time to do that. By law, students A Leavitt spokeswomansaid the governoris interested in the was too general for himtooffer an opinion. “That’s something he knowsis very important, for children to be enter aren't required to bein class until age 6. That gives tate Officeof Education is teachers just three years to get themupto speed. Hehopes to work with experts at Brigham Young University to identify what activities parents can offer to boost learning. The district would provide that infor- mation, for free, at schools, docoffices and through parent organizations. hosting a separate workshop on howparents can get their chil dren readyfor school in general. And the office is creating guide. lines for parents who plan to teach their 3- and 4-year-olds at homeinsteadof sending themto preschool. For moreinformation, call Bakerat 538-772 lishedFri the definitive stantly became reference for those seeking to measure what this divided society has endured since “Lost Lives” took eight years to compile and runs more than THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS ing his sentence, Michael Fortier on Friday ended up where he started. U.S. District Judge Thomas Van Bebber employed different federal sentencingguidelines, but imposed the same 12-year prison term on Fortier, an ex-soldier who knewof plans to bomb the OklahomaCityfederal building but failedtoalert authorities. The visiting Kansas City, judgedid, however, reduceFortier’s fine from$200,000 to $75,000. But the ruling had little practica’ effect, at least immediately, because he is unable to pay it yrtier’s attorney, Michael McGuire of Tulsa, Okla., filed notice that he would appeal the sentence. He argued that Fortier, Special Assistant U.S. Attor. ney Sean Connelly declined to comment on the which wasnearly twice a $ prosecutors themselves recommended But an attorney for victims and survivors ofthe April 19, 1995 truck bombing hailed the judge's decision to reimpose the 12-year “Tt should hold up a warningcard to the community and say: What andsurvivor For instance, whenIrish Republican Army dissidents killed 29 people with a car bomb in Omagh in 1998, the motherof 12-year-old James Barker recalls the scene in the town’s emergency morgue: “To see himlying there, with half his head gone, and those term that was thrown out last June when a Denverappeals court ruled Judge Van Bebber applied the wrong federal! sen tencing guidelines. “The sentence reflected all of the [bombing’s] consequences the deaths, the injuries, the psychological trauma, the destruction to OklahomaCity,” said Paul Cassell, a University of Utah lawprofessor and notedvic tims rights advocate custody ‘Michael was not surprised by what the judge did,” McGuire said. “He sort of expected it. Natu rally, he’s disappointed, but he never had his hopes up that he would be considered in the light he thought he ought to be, . ° AYPRUCLC Distillation Systems SHOW Hours thorsdey Friday Saterday eo OCTOBER 7-9, 1999 ° Brian Feeney, a political and former moderate Catholic Republican Army. politician; British Broadcasting Corp. producer Seamus Kelters; for vengeance,” sa ick, one of the authors: who for the London-based newspaperTheIndependent. *s coautho: to the dominantwing of theIrish They say the and Chris Thornton, a Boston IRA's enemiesin Protestant para military groups killed 1,050 peo: native who has reported for Northern Ireland's three major ple andthatthe British armyand newspaperssincethe 1980s. Clinton Goof Compares N.Irish Negotiators to Drunks spoke of a need to heal religious and ethnic THE ASSOCIATED PRE differences. President Clinton was forced to apologize Fridayafter he remarked that the lorth ernIreland peace processhad stun mbled because the twosides are * like a couple of drunks” who can’t leavethebar. “I spent an enormous amount oftimetrying to help the people in the nd every time they make an agreement to do Theremark, which manyIrish would considera it, he continued, * “they're like a couple of drunks walking out of the barfor the last time. Whenthey get to the swinging door, they turn arour 1 and go back in and say. ‘I just can’t quiteget there. racial stereotype, riled tempers in Belfast and hours after ard the White Houseissued a state ment in Clinton's name acknowledging that the comment had beeninappropriate rliertoday, in a discussion oftheIrish process, | used a metaphorthat we as i said Clintonin the statement. “ duri land of my forebears in NorthernIreland get over 600 years ofreligious fights.” Clinton said. The remarks drew a mixture of murmurs and laughterfromthe crowd National Security Council spokesman David Leavysaid in Washington that Clinton was ex se myremark caused.’ ing his frustration withall sides in the Northern Irelanddispute speech inaugurating the new U.S. Embassy building here in which Clinton 0% Oft Judge Van Bebber’s first rul which said he incorrectly relied all Jesper’ office furniture in stock Instead, the judgeexercised an option to toughen the sentence because of the magnitude of the crime, He said Fortier actually deserved to spend even more time behind bars, but to imposesuch a sentence would risk making the jue appear vindictive. Fortier, 30, pleaded guilty to failing to alert authorities of the attac! ansporting and selling stolen weapons; and lyingto the FBI after the bombing Reverse Osmosis eeareca) 446- 8048 00 ° ONLY $3 ADMISSION WITH COUPONI! a) ° © @ $ ingrief. The authors also deliver breakdowns of responsibility that are unprecedentedin their detail. By th reckoning, antiBritish militants killed 40 peo: ple; 1,772 of those are attributed South West . . The book doesn't generally identify individual victim's killers. “We were fromthestart anxious to insure that this work should not be used after bombings or hearing about $699 IDEAS: ° ° ° ° Irish Republic, and 18 in continental Europe. TIMBERLAND WATER ° ® ° ° st. 7 people are identi fied as fatalities within Northern Ireland, 124 in England, 118 in the Installed Softener the government's key witness against Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, deserved to be released immediately after spend ing the last 50 months in fe In all Northern Ireland's peace accord is in dangerofunraveling. The book broadens the offi definition of who is a victim of “The Troubles.” It includes peo: ple who had fatal heart attacks the province's police force killed beautiful green eyes looking out ing was overturned by the 10th ughter standards which could have given Fortier 51 months behind bars. larly cutting at a time when the slaying of a loved one, and ‘ar’s list of dead is pref- other he book's message is particu also those who committedsuicide for aeswith quotes from witnesses U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, on first-degree murderguidelines assessingthe punishment. This dee: he applied involuntary man 301 and52,respectively Theother 94 deaths areattrib: ‘0 mob violence victim. “This book is an enormous social commentaryon ourfailure to organize theway we live togei her, M Belfast civil serwait aie ie prov! ide funding for the project v Mar n MeCullough/TheAssociaied Press David McKittrick, right, one of the four authors of the book “Lost Lives,” signs a copyat the booklaunching at the Ulster Museumin Belfast. at me as if he was waiting me, was devastating. | neve alized 1,600 pages. Printed on wafer-thin paper. it offers detailed quota tions and background on each Fortier Loses Appeal of Oklahoma Bombing Sentence OKLAHOMA CITY — Three months after successfully appeal AZT 3,600 lives recounted Birth to Talk to them and sing them 3 montis nursery rhymes. Babies will 406 months Saturday, October9, 1999 Book Catalogs Deathsin N.Ireland ere reelds acea There are severalactivities parents can do to build literacy in their preschoo! age children. 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