Literacy

At-A-Glance

The At-A-Glance documents outline domain-specific skills and behaviors of children as well as ways that adults can support learning and development. The one-page documents were developed for use with parents, educators, or community partners.

Resources

Teaching Reading: Classroom Strategies: This Reading Rockets site provides a library of research-based classroom strategies to help build and strengthen literacy skills in print awareness, phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and writing.
Developing Literacy Skills with Dual Language Learners: This short video provides an example of how a teacher helps her dual language students develop language and literacy skills.
Center for Early Literacy Learning (CELL): CELL has resources for early childhood intervention practitioners, parents, and other caregivers of children, birth to five years of age, with identified disabilities, developmental delays, and those at-risk for poor outcomes.
8 Strategies for Preschool ELLs' Language and Literacy Development: This article describes some of the methods and strategies that research has proven effective in preparing young ELLs for kindergarten.

For more information on this topic, contact Mindi Helmandollar-Armatas.