Research affirms that a literacy rich environment promotes the development of literacy skills. You can create an accessible literacy rich environment by: Providing a wide variety of print, reading, writing, and electronic materials. Adapting literacy materials to meet children’s individual needs (e.g., pencil grips, page turning devices, Velcro, etc.) Balancing informational and narrative texts. Modeling… Read more »
Tag: Writing
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 »
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 »