Pre-Kindergarten/Kindergarten State Institutes for Reading Intervention (Pre-K/K SIRI)

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Module 1 – Tools for Early Language and Literacy Teaching

Topics in this module include the meaning of standards-based education, information about Ohio’s Early Learning Content Standards, and guidance relative to teaching strategies that are connected to Ohio’s Early Learning Content Standards for English Language Arts.

Module 2 – A Way of Knowing: Observation and Recording

The document A Way of Knowing provides teachers with information about the importance of intentional observation as well as protocols for data collection, analysis and interpretation. This module uses the document to provide guidance to link data to classroom practice and teaching strategies.

Module 3 – Building a Foundation for Early Literacy

This module provides guidance for working with parents and creating a rich environment for supporting and challenging early literacy skills.

Module 4 – Oral Language and Early Literacy

This module provides teachers with knowledge around the creation of conditions to foster talk along with instructional approaches for the development of communication skills.

Module 5 – Print and Early Literacy

This module provides teachers with guidance for working with letters and words. The sessions help teachers understand the meaning of and strategies for teaching phonemic awareness.

Module 6 – Writing and Early Literacy

In this module, teachers learn how to help children move from scribbles to words and ways to evaluate children’s early writing to understand their developing knowledge of print.

Module 7 – Children’s Literature and Early Literacy

The use of quality literature and story time are important tools for introducing concepts of print and focused strategies that support knowledge of words and sounds. This module increases participants’ knowledge and skills of these tools.