Based on The Essential Literacy Workshop Book
Eligible for 2 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) from the University of Wisconsin-Stout
After reading the book The Essential Literacy Workshop Book and successfully completing the two-part online assessment, you will be prepared to:
- Create a developmentally appropriate print-rich environment that facilitates meaningful learning, supports diversity, and promotes literacy development.
- Discuss children's language development and its relationship to children's thinking.
- Demonstrate strategies for developing children's listening and speaking skills throughout the day.
- Ask questions that support creativity and higher-level thinking.
- Introduce strategies for supporting home language development and English language learning.
- List ideas for literacy materials, props, and ways to meet the needs of English language learners.
- Develop strategies for teaching phonological and phonemic awareness.
- Collect ideas for using chants, fingerplays, poetry, rhyming books, and songs to promote phonological and phonemic awareness.
- Describe how becoming a competent writer involves knowing and understanding the forms, functions, and features of writing.
- Explain how writing can be integrated throughout the day within the environment.
- Identify ways of promoting literacy in centers during choice time and during your scheduled literacy/language arts period.
- Illustrate how to support children's expressive and receptive language development by creating new words and themes for familiar songs.
- Analyze children's books for biases and stereotypes.
- Construct a planning web to support teaching literacy across the curriculum.
- Develop practical lesson plans to use in the classroom.
CO10A – 2 CEUs, 2 Tests – Part A and Part B
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