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.
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.
Helping Children Build Language Skills: This article provides information on how adults can help children develop their language abilities by tuning in to what they say and responding in ways that result in more talk.
Building Language Through Thematic Learning: This short video provides an example of how, in a dual language model, children can build language skills through a thematic approach.
Reading Rockets: Vocabulary-An extensive library of activities, instructional strategies, parent tips, and video clips.

Contact:
Mindi Helmandollar-Armatas, PreK-3rd Grade Coordinator