Environmental print materials are easily accessible and affordable. Materials can include fast food menus, cereal boxes, food and drink labels, product packaging, catalogs, and common signs like those found on restroom doors. Choose items that capture children’s attention and are relevant to their age and interests. Research Printed materials that are part of a… Read More Developing Early Literacy Skills Using Environmental Print
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Developing Early Literacy Skills through Shared-Reading
One shared-reading practice is called dialogic reading. In dialogic reading, the adult prompts the children by asking questions about the story or the pictures in the book, and provides feedback in the form of repetitions, expansions, and modeling of answers (National Early Literacy Panel, 2009). Research Shared-reading is often recommended as the single most… Read More Developing Early Literacy Skills through Shared-Reading
Tools To Encourage Play In Children With Autism
A child’s ability to initiate and sustain play interactions with peers not only promotes their engagement and learning, but also serves as a precursor for their participation in future educational environments. Children with autism often display restricted play skills, preventing them from successfully participating in inclusive environments. Research Play gives children the opportunity… Read More Tools To Encourage Play In Children With Autism
Tactics For Your Toolkit: Using A Zone Defense In Preschool
A zone defense is commonly associated with basketball and refers to players being responsible for covering specific areas of the court, versus a man-to-man defense where they are responsible for specific opponents. Preschool teachers and paraprofessionals, who are responsible for many children at once, can apply a similar zone approach in the classroom. The various… Read More Tactics For Your Toolkit: Using A Zone Defense In Preschool
Tactics For Your Toolkit: Embedded Instruction
Rather than providing instruction in an isolated and discrete manner, embedded instruction maximizes children’s motivation by following their interests, and promotes generalization and maintenance by providing instruction within and across activities, routines, and transitions. Research Embedding instruction on individual goals into typically occurring activities and routines is a recommended and evidence-based approach to providing… Read More Tactics For Your Toolkit: Embedded Instruction
TACtics for your Toolkit: Making Sense of a Curriculum Framework
A curriculum framework, however, represents a structure for classifying and organizing the many elements and processes involved in creating learning opportunities for young children. It serves as an underlying foundation from which all practices related to children’s learning and development are identified, implemented and evaluated. A curriculum, as many of us understand it, is… Read More TACtics for your Toolkit: Making Sense of a Curriculum Framework
For Future Reference: Writing Standards-Based IEPs in Preschool
Incorporating these standards into each child’s IEP poses new challenges for educators who are more accustomed to writing goals on basic developmental skills. However, standards-based IEPs become a necessity when we consider that a primary goal for early education is school readiness. In 2007, the Virginia Department of Education released the Foundation Blocks for… Read More For Future Reference: Writing Standards-Based IEPs in Preschool
