1. ARS Language & Literacy Curriculum
ARS PD Session 17
October 21, 2011

2. Agenda
Morning
A6ernoon
8:30
Coffee
Talk
• Phonological
Awareness
12:00
Lunch
8:45
Welcome/Agenda
1:00
Oral
Language
AcDvity
• Having
a
ConversaDon
• Let s
Look
at
Our
Project
1:30
The
Big
Three
Work
• Small
Group
Research
• Sharing
Successes
2:15
PracDcing
The
Big
Three
2:45
Break
• Parent Event
3:00
Sandy/Course
Sign-­‐Up
9:30
Karen
Burstein/CLASS
Data
3:15
Course
Work
Groups
10:30
Break
4:00
Wrap
Up/EvaluaDon
10:45
CLASS
Data
(cont.)
11:00
Case
Studies

3. ARS
Goals
• Best
pracDce
• EssenDal
early
literacy
skills
• Knowledgeable
educators
• 21
century
learning
environments
• Engaged
parents
and
communiDes

4. Pause…reflect…describe
one
you
are
working
on
lately
• ATend
• Listen
• ParDcipate
• Learn
• Share
• Collaborate
• Care

5. Project
at
a
Glance
Let s
Look
at
Our
Project
Work
Our
Successes
including
Parent
Night!

6. Data
Time
CLASS Observation
Results
(aggregate & next steps)

7. Curriculum:
Case
Studies
ram atic Play
D
Vocabulary
Curriculum

8. Curriculum:
Oral
Language
Development
AcIvity
Having
a
ConversaDon

9. Curriculum:
EffecIve
ConversaIonal
Strategies
The
Big
Three
Clarify-Extend Question-Tell
Think-Aloud

10. Effective Conversational Strategies
Practicing the Big Three
Clarify-Extend
Question-Tell
Think Aloud

11.
Benefits
Effective
Conversation
Strategies • Help children develop a large
bank of language structure,
words, and meanings.
• The more they have and bring
to instruction the more they get
out of instruction.

12. ARS
Literacy
Coursework
Courses:
Undergrad- Developing Language Choose
through Oral Narratives
Undergrad- Developing Integrated
Curriculum
Undergrad- Technology and the
Sign-up
Early Childhood Classroom
Graduate- Seminar in Language and
Literacy

13. Closing
&
EvaluaIon
• Highlights
from
the
session