Based on Inclusive Literacy Lessons for Early Childhood
Eligible for 1 Continuing Education Unit (CEU) from the University of Wisconsin-Stout
After reading the book Inclusive Literacy Lessons for Early Childhood and successfully completing the online assessment, you will be prepared to:
- Model best practices when working with children with special needs.
- Recognize and explain the six categories of special needs.
- Identify and describe the basic literacy skills: listening, oral language development, phonological awareness, letter knowledge and recognition, print awareness, and comprehension.
- Define the terms onomatopoeia, segmentation, and alliteration as applied to phonological awareness.
- Teach letter recognition skills.
- Demonstrate skills in making children with special needs valued members of your classroom community.
- Describe classroom adaptations for children with visual and hearing impairments.
- List guidelines for working with children who are cognitively challenged.
- Discuss general guidelines to use when planning to teach a new functional skill.
- Explain simple classroom adaptations for children with delayed motor development.
- Create an environment to make children with speech and language delays feel more comfortable.
- Recognize and describe the behaviors of children who have sensory integration disorders and are either oversensitive or undersensitive to the sense of movement, taste, touch, smell, sound, or vision (sight).
COO9A – 1 CEU, 1 Test
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