Early Literacy Tips
Supporting Early Childhood Programs, Issue 7
TALK IT UP! GROWING CHILDREN'S BRAINS
Coaching in Preschools
Essential #4
Planner
Video
Interactive Read Aloud Strategy
1) Interactive Read Aloud Plan
2) Video of what is included in an Interactive Read Aloud
Please note that if you are using Creative Curriculum, it recommends repeat readings of the same book to build comprehension and vocabulary.
Extended Conversations
Adults engage in interactions with children that regularly include:
• responding to and initiating conversations with children, with repeated turns back and forth on the same topic
• encouraging talk among children through the selective use of open-ended questions, commenting on what children are doing, offering prompts (e.g., “Try asking your friend how you can help”), and scaffolding higher- order discussion, particularly during content-area learning
• engaging in talk, including narration and explanation, within dramatic play experiences and content-area learning, including intentional vocabulary-building efforts
• extending children’s language (e.g., The child says, “Fuzzy”; the adult says, “Yes, that peach feels fuzzy. What else do you notice about it?”)
• stories of past events and discussion of future events
Center for Early Literacy Learning (CELL)
The goal of the Center for Early Literacy Learning (CELL) is to promote the adoption and sustained use of evidence-based early literacy learning practices. This site has resources for early childhood intervention practitioners, parents, and other caregivers of children, birth to five years of age, with identified disabilities, developmental delays, and those at-risk for poor outcomes.
Michelle McQueen
Genesee Intermediate School District
Email: mmcqueen@geneseeisd.org
Website: https://www.literacyessentials0-5.org/
Location: Genesee Intermediate School District
Phone: (810) 922-1707