Early Literacy Leaders
Issue 2: September Updates & Tips
LEARNING TO READ DOESN'T START IN KINDERGARTEN
Developing language and literacy skills begins at birth through every day loving interactions, such as sharing books, telling stories, singing songs and talking to one another. Early childhood educators make an impact!
Literacy PD: "Make it, Take it"
This Month's Best Literacy Practice: Extended Conversations
Using Repetition and Extension helps to keep conversations going by focusing on the child’s language. Listen carefully to what the child is saying and respond by expanding the child’s words into more complete phrases or sentences. The child determines the topic. You follow the lead, adding more content to the conversation, new vocabulary, and new sentence structures.
Milestones of Early Literacy Development
The best opportunity to influence a child's future is in the first five years, a critical window of rapid brain development that does not occur at any other time. Children who hear fewer words during early childhood start school developmentally behind their peers and may never catch up. Look up milestones of early literacy development by age.
How can early childhood providers best support early literacy?
Support for Head Start and GSRP classrooms in Genesee County
The Literacy Team
Early Literacy Coordinator 0-5
Genesee Intermediate School District
"Talk, Read, Sing"
Email: mmcqueen@geneseeisd.org
Phone: (810) 922-1707