Early Literacy Learning Model: Additional Practice Exercises for Practitioners about Everyday...
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Early Literacy Learning Model: Additional Practice Exercises for Practitioners
about Everyday Literacy Activities
Distance Learning Events brought to you by the Center for Early Literacy Learning
(CELL)
What are additional practice exercises for practitioners?
• Created specifically for those who work in the early childhood classroom.
• Cover the four main components of the CELL early literacy learning model
• Utilize the Participatory Adult Learning Strategies (PALS) approach to learning
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Additional Practice #1:Everyday Literacy Activities
• Make the Early Childhood Interests Assessment form easily accessible by taping it on the wall or using a clipboard. You can get the assessment from our tools page located here.
• Informally observe one child during the morning or afternoon for two or three hours.
• Write the child’s initials in the areas of interest for that particular child on the form.
• Make a list of additional activities that are rich with literacy experiences that were observed and should be on the list.
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Additional Evaluation #1:Everyday Literacy Activities
• What patterns emerged? What types of activities did the child engage in most frequently?
• Of the activities engaged in, what types of informal literacy experiences occurred?
• What could you do to make the child’s favorite activities more literacy rich?
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Additional Reflection #1:Everyday Literacy Activities
• You were asked to note what types of informal literacy experiences occurred while observing a child.
ـ Do you need to create more opportunities for informal literacy learning?
ـ How will you do that? Place this list of opportunities in your lesson plan folder or in the child’s portfolio.
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• Choose an area of interest noted in Practice 1 of Everyday Literacy Activities.
• Create and implement an informal everyday literacy activity related to that particular interest.
Additional Practice #2:Everyday Literacy Activities
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Additional Evaluation #2:Everyday Literacy Activities
• How often could this activity occur throughout the day?
• How could this activity provide opportunities for language learning?
• How could this activity provide opportunities for practicing literacy skills?
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Additional Reflection #2:Everyday Literacy Activities
• What challenges did you face completing this practice?
• Why do you think you faced those challenges?
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Additional Practice #3:Everyday Literacy Activities
• Choose one area of interest noted on the Early Childhood Interests Assessment form.
• Based on that area of interest, create a list of interest-based literacy learning activities that you could provide outdoors.
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Additional Evaluation #3:Everyday Literacy Activities
• Were the activities you created informal or formal?
• How could these activities provide opportunities for language learning?
• How could these activities provide opportunities for practicing literacy skills?
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Additional Reflection #3:Everyday Literacy Activities
• What challenges did you face completing this practice?
• Why do you think you faced those challenges?
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