Dialogic Reading Link is an evidence-based interactive shared-reading practice that teachers and families can use to enhance children’s oral language development. It involves using the same book multiple times to progress through three levels of questioning with small groups or individual children. Dialogic Reading introduces new vocabulary, supports comprehension, and develops creative and critical… Read more »
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Translanguaging for Young Literacy Learners
We live in an increasingly complex, multilingual society where young children from a variety of ethnic, racial, and linguistic backgrounds work together to learn literacy in our classrooms. As we’ve written about before, there are many different Englishes (Fu et al., 2019). Our emergent bilingual students, in particular, will bring diverse English practices that include… Read more »
Diversifying Your Library
As you choose books for your classroom library, be sure that all children are represented in your selections. Include books with characters, authors, and illustrators representative of different ethnicities, races, cultures, abilities, and family structures. Buying books is not the only way to expand your library’s inventory. Consider visiting your local library and borrowing books… Read more »
Early Literacy
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… Read more »