Workshops – Early Literacy – from Research to Practice K-2

Important topics to be explored

• How young children’s brains develop
• Enhancing young children’s abilities to think, perceive, reason and create
• Literacy development: Concerns and recommendations
• Determining the child’s stage of reading development: Self concepting stage
• Bridging stage, Take-off stage, Independent reading, Skilled Reader
• Using noun word banks in beginning writing
• All about phonics: When to begin, how to develop skills
• Alphabetic awareness activities
• Using the Phonics Word Wall / Language games
• Literature circles and comprehension strategies
• Non fiction and the emergent reader.
• Integrated units appropriate for young children
• Early childhood thinking processes essential for academic success
• Developmentally appropriate learning activities for K-2 programs
• Neurological impressioning…its importance in the early childhood-primary program.
• Strategies for Developing Oral Language Facility
• Bulding success in first writing experiences
• Oral language development and creative drama
• Exploring the real world through literature
• Beginning Research Models
• The best of the newest children¹s books appropriate for Pre K-2