Preschool Language & Literacy
Explore resources designed to improve instruction in early language and literacy.
- View a visual diagram of both practices
- Watch a topic overview and download planning templates
- Watch a short overview
Explore the subtopics below to learn more about the recommended practices:
To learn more about the research underlying these practices, view the intervention reports on phonological awareness, phonological awareness with letter knowledge training, shared book reading, interactive shared book reading, and dialogic reading.
Training Coaches/Mentors to Work With Teachers
Preschool Language & Literacy > Interactive & Dialogic Reading > See How It Works
Listen to a director explain what mentors need to know about modeling, helping teachers develop lesson plans, and providing feedback. As you listen, look at the Mentor Log: Planning On-Site...
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Phonological Awareness: Developmental Continuum
Preschool Language & Literacy > Phonological Awareness > See How It Works
Watch a preschool director discuss the importance of teaching phonological awareness skills along a continuum and how to help teachers implement this practice and reinforce auditory work in...
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Keeping Track of Student Progress With Portfolios
Preschool Language & Literacy > Phonological Awareness > See How It Works
A coach describes using the Personal Literacy Plan to track student progress and plan instruction. Download the Personal Literacy Plan: Using Assessment Data to Guide Instruction to follow...
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Using Evaluation Data to Improve Teaching
Preschool Language & Literacy > Phonological Awareness > See How It Works
Listen to how a program director called on external evaluators to help staff interpret and use data to support children's learning. Follow along with Using Evaluation Data to Improve Instruction as...
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Letters and Sounds
Preschool Language & Literacy > Phonological Awareness > See How It Works
Watch this kindergarten teacher demonstrate an effective classroom activity for teaching phonemic awareness, including a brief lesson on letter-sound correspondence.
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Selecting Books for Interactive Reading
Preschool Language & Literacy > Interactive & Dialogic Reading > See How It Works
Teachers need to know what to look for when selecting books for interactive reading. Hear an administrator describe how she trains teachers to make book selections. Review the program's Required...
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Mentor Log: Planning On-Site Training With Teachers
Preschool Language & Literacy > Interactive & Dialogic Reading > See How It Works
View the log that Tempe uses to help mentors work with preschool teachers to reflect on the results of classroom observations. The project director discusses this method in Training Coaches/Mentors...
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Daily Lesson Plan for Four-Year-Olds
Preschool Language & Literacy > Interactive & Dialogic Reading > See How It Works
This daily lesson plan format emphasizes activity planning based on instructional objectives, program standards, and desired learning outcomes and includes an example of interactive reading...
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Preparing a Dialogic Reading Lesson
Preschool Language & Literacy > Interactive & Dialogic Reading > See How It Works
Use this dialogic reading planning tool to help teachers develop questions and prompts for repeated readings of a storybook using the framework described in A Three-Level Framework for Dialogic...
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Vocabulary Teaching Planner for Books
Preschool Language & Literacy > Interactive & Dialogic Reading > See How It Works
Consider using this planner as a resource to help teachers plan how they will highlight and explicitly teach vocabulary words they have selected from a story. Related Files: Tempe Early Reading...
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Using a Phonological Awareness Developmental Continuum
Preschool Language & Literacy > Phonological Awareness > See How It Works
The Portales preschool program uses this framework to organize information about phonological awareness skills as explained by the program's principal investigator in Phonological Awareness: A...
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Daily Lesson Plan for Four-Year-Olds
Preschool Language & Literacy > Phonological Awareness > See How It Works
Review a daily lesson plan format that emphasizes preschool activity planning based on instructional objectives, program standards, and desired learning outcomes. Examples of phonological awareness...
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