4K Literacy Academy
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This comprehensive professional learning experience, focused on our earliest learners in 4K, is designed to enhance early literacy instruction through intentional letter learning cycles.
The Benefits
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Support Transitions
Strengthen alignment between 4K and 5K
literacy expectations
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Build Strong Foundations
Develop intentional routines that accelerate letter
learning and literacy growth
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Strengthen Instruction
Connect Science of Reading practices to
developmentally appropriate 4K instruction
Outcomes & Deliverables
Learn Through Play
Learn how the use of play can create a structured, engaging learning environment.
Dialogic Conversation
Explore a wide range of tools to support oral language and vocabulary through this high-leverage routine.
Goals
- Build oral language and vocabulary through the Dialogic Conversation routine.
- Explore the structure of play workshop and how it impacts oral language, executive functioning, and social-emotional learning.
- Be introduced to a rich array of texts and tools that can support the implementation of play workshop.
- Engage in collaborative planning to develop actionable plans to bring back to the classroom.
- Gain access to a wide range of tools to support Play Workshop and practices, including individual district coaching.
Structure & Schedule
4 Learning Days at CESA 6
- October 18, 2024
- December 6, 2024
- January 31, 2025
- April 11, 2025
- Two personalized on-site coaching days
Day 1 - Introduction
- Examine "Big Picture" of Literacy Learning
- Develop a common understanding about play workshop
- Types of play
Day 2 - Leveraging Dialogic Conversations
- Active view of reading (executive functioning)/Reading Rope
- The classroom environment and its impact of play on the
- Stages of play
Day 3 - Intentionality of Play
- Create toolkit for Dialogic Conversation
- Emphasize "share" portion
- Discuss types of share: writing, oral storytelling, responsive read alouds
Day 4 - Putting It All Together
- Emphasize the "teach" portion
- Determine a scope and sequence of lessons
- Revisit stages of play
Who Would Benefit
- Administrators
- Certified Staff
- C&I Directors
More Details
Kristine Mraz, Alison Porcelli, and Cheryl Tyler. Purposeful Play: A Teacher's Guide to Igniting Deep & Joyful Learning Across the Day. Heinemann, 2016.
See how play helps students reach standards and goals in ways that in-their-seat instruction can't do.
