Welcome to the Early Childhood Center’s blog on early literacy! We work to promote research-to-practice in early childhood and K-3 classrooms, focusing especially on encouraging inclusion and culturally responsive pedagogy.
Teaching early literacy well, in keeping with the best evidence AND differentiated to meet all students’ needs, is hard work! We’d like to help. Use the link below to ask your most pressing questions about early literacy – the kinds of questions you’ve always wanted to ask the experts – and we’ll start posting in response. Think of it as Dear Abby for teaching reading and writing!
You can be hyper-specific (e.g., Is Orton Gillingham a good phonics program?) or very general (e.g., How do you encourage oral language development?). We’ll give you easy-to-understand, research-backed responses that you can take back to your classroom, care center, or home.
In short, we’ll use literacy to help you teach literacy!
Happy reading,
Lauren
Link to Question Form: https://iu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3DlVhxmbCVBeEnA
Dr. Lauren Breckenridge Padesky is a research scientist at the Indiana Institute on Disability & Community’s Early Childhood Center. She holds a PhD in Curriculum & Instruction – Literacy Education, and has formerly taught preschool through high school students to read and write in a variety of settings. Email her at lpadesky@iu.edu.
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