Preschool Language & Literacy

Explore resources designed to improve instruction in early language and literacy.

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.

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Helping Teachers Learn New Practice
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Helping Teachers Learn New Practice

Preschool Language & Literacy > Interactive & Dialogic Reading > See How It Works

A preschool director describes how mentors form reciprocal relationships with teachers; employ observational and assessment data to engage teachers in developing action plans; and use videos to...

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Selecting Books for Interactive Reading
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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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Letters and Sounds
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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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Phonological Awareness: Developmental Continuum
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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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Using Evaluation Data to Improve Teaching
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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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School Example

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Keeping Track of Student Progress With Portfolios
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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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School Example

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Mentor Log: Planning On-Site Training With Teachers
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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
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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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Sample Material

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Preparing a Dialogic Reading Lesson
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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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Sample Material

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Vocabulary Teaching Planner for Books
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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...

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Sample Material

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Required Storybook List
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Required Storybook List

Preschool Language & Literacy > Interactive & Dialogic Reading > See How It Works

This list includes storybooks that lend themselves to interactive reading strategies. Tempe's principal investigator explains how to select books for interactive reading in Selecting Books for...

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Sample Material

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Personal Literacy Plan: Using Assessment Data to Guide Instruction
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Personal Literacy Plan: Using Assessment Data to Guide Instruction

Preschool Language & Literacy > Phonological Awareness > See How It Works

Ready to Learn created this tool as a quick way to see where children are in literacy development. In Keeping Track of Student Progress With Portfolios, the literacy coach talks about how staff use...

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Sample Material

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