Pre-literacy in the early years – online course

How much explicit instruction is required? Three or four three minute explicit instruction sessions each day, in addition to short one minute progress checks.

PLD supports play, socialisation, inquiry, activities, child centred approaches and some direct development of key skills that set up young children for success within the education system.

The short course is comprised of 4 installments:

Installment 1: A start to the year with oral language & phonological awareness

• Explore theoretical themes from ‘meta-analysis’ reviews on how to prepare children for literacy.
• Explore the need to balance ‘early childhood’ with some explicit teaching of key pre-literacy skills.
• Cover the impact of oral language on pre-literacy, early literacy and later literacy development.
• Outline how to start the year with oral language activities and phonological awareness.
• Presentation of simple time efficient processes to track skill acquisition.

Installment 2: Establishing the beginnings of phonemic awareness

• Explore further theoretical themes from ‘meta-analysis’ reviews on how to prepare children for literacy.

• Clarification of the difference between phonological awareness and phonemic awareness.
• Provide multiple demonstrations on to explicitly instruction of initial sound awareness (a precursor to the alphabet).
• Provide tips for working with children with speech, language and attention difficulties, while continuing to extend vocabulary and initial sound awareness.
• Presentation of the next tool for checking on progress.

Installment 3: Teaching the alphabet in a manner that will support early readers

• Introduce the basic principles of synthetic phonics, which underlies the PLD approach to teaching the alphabet.
• Demonstrations on how to explicitly teach the alphabet using PLD’s ‘Alphabet and early phonics, the multi-sensory way’ or a set of generic alphabet cards.
• Present the next tool for checking on progress.
• Guidelines for alphabet for reading and spelling.
• Tips for when children are slow to acquire the alphabet.
• Presentation of two screening tools track the rate of alphabet acquisition.

Installment 4: The beginnings of blending and establishing a full year plan

• Explanation of how It takes time to develop strong, consistent and independent alphabet skills.
• Recommend that blending is introduced while continuing to develop alphabet skills.
• Further explanations of synthetic phonics.
• Demonstrations on how to explicitly introduce blending.
• The presentation of two screening tools track the rate of blending skill acquisition.
• Tips – when children are experiencing difficulty with blending.
• Investigate how to create a schedule over a year to sequence the primary pre-literacy skills

MULTI USER DISCOUNTS NOW AVAILABLE

If you purchase more than one online course licence at one time you now receive a scaled discount.

2 to 5 User Licences – 10% discount per licence

6 to 10 User Licences – 15% discount per licence

11 to 20 User Licences – 25% discount per licence

21 to 50 User Licences – 35% discount per licence

51 to 100 User Licences – 50% discount per licence

100 + User Licences – please send an enquiry to [email protected] for a quote specific to your needs.

NOTE: Upon purchasing this course, you will receive an e-mail with further details on how to access the course. You will have 3 months to register for the course, and once registered, you will have full access to the course for 90 days.

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