Sponsor: Follett Early Learning

January 15, 2014

Are Your Early Literacy Program Materials Good Enough? Let’s Find Out! by Kathleen Roskos and Lisa Lenhart

This session is part of the Follett Growing Readers Series The explosion of early literacy materials for young children is a real boon to busy for early childhood teachers. But the abundance also comes with a responsibility to make the best choices about which materials to select and use with young children. This webinar describes an easy-to use tool, referred to as ELMS, for reviewing[...] Full Description

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Lisa Lenhart

Kathleen Roskos

Topics :
Literacy, Materials Selection, Teaching Practices

December 11, 2013

Fire Up Early Literacy with Award-Winning Books: The CLEL Bell Picture Book Awards, by Melissa Depper

This session is part of the Follett Growing Readers Series “The single most important activity for building the knowledge required for eventual success in reading is reading aloud to children.” -Becoming a Nation of Readers Research shows that shared picture book reading throughout the preschool years develops a range of critical early literacy skills, including print awareness, letter knowledge, vocabulary, phonological awareness, background knowledge, and[...] Full Description

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Melissa Depper

Topics :
Books, Storytime, Teaching Practices

November 6, 2013

Using an Anti-Bias Lens to Examine Early Childhood Children’s Books by Linda Santora and Cheryl Kilodavis

Literature is a powerful vehicle for helping children understand their homes, communities and the world. Even before young children can read, family members, childcare providers and teachers read them stories about people in far away places, sometimes from the distant past and sometimes about people whose lives are similar to their own. The impressions and messages contained in these stories can last a lifetime.

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Cheryl Kilodavis

Linda Santora

Topics :
Anti-bias, Equity, Materials Selection, Teaching Practices

October 2, 2013

The ECE Director’s Guide to Must-Have Literacy Practices in Early Education Classrooms, by Nell K. Duke

This session is part of the Follett Growing Readers Series Research increasingly points to the significant influence that preschool years, and preschool educators, can have on children’s short- and long-term literacy development. In this presentation, Nell Duke, Author of The ABCs of Emergent Literacy, and professor of language, literacy, and culture at the University of Michigan, will identify characteristics of the environment and experiences offered[...] Full Description

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Nell Duke

Topics :
DAP, Literacy, Prereading, Teaching Practices

August 14, 2013

Librarians and DAP Early Childhood Programs – Powerful Strategies for Growing Young Readers by Mary Stansbury

Librarians are outstanding and eager partners in efforts to nurture early literacy skills. Learn about the things libraries are already doing in partnership with early childhood educators and families, and suggestions for partnering with libraries in your own community.

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Mary Stansbury

Topics :
Books, DAP, Prereading, Storytime, Teaching Practices

August 7, 2013

Improving Vocabulary in the Age of Common Core Standards- Guidance for Early Childhood Educators by Susan B. Neuman

This session is part of the Follett Growing Readers Series Children today in the age of common core standards will need richer vocabulary and deeper content knowledge to comprehend complex text. This session describes what we know from recent research on improving vocabulary instruction, highlighting key principles that are related to reading improvement. It will also describe approaches that enable children to learn academic[...] Full Description

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Susan B. Neuman

Topics :
Language Development, Literacy, Teaching Practices, Vocabulary

May 15, 2013

Challenging Behavior and Culture – A Connection? Creating Culturally Respectful ECE Environments by Barbara Kaiser

This webinar will look at culture from a research based perspective in order to help directors understand the influence of culture - the child's, the educator's, and the center's (school's) - on behavior because a cultural conflict, visible or invisible, can cause or contribute to challenging behavior.

Presenter(s):

Barbara Kaiser

Topics :
Challenging Behavior, Social Justice, Social-Emotional Development, Teaching Practices

April 10, 2013

Close the Vocabulary Gap! Proven Strategies ECE Administrators Can Use to Help Teachers Enhance Vocabulary in Their Classrooms by Julie Wood, Ed.D.

This session is part of the Follett Growing Readers Series A child’s vocabulary is their passport to understanding and interpreting a wide range of texts. Unfortunately many children from low-income settings enter school with significantly smaller vocabularies than their more economically-advantaged peers. Hart & Risley’s (1995) research with young children showed a 30-million word gap by age three. This gap has an enormous impact on[...] Full Description

Presenter(s):

Julie M. Wood

Topics :
Language Development, Literacy, Teaching Practices, Vocabulary

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