Transcript Practice Guides with Adaptations & Spanish Translations Webinar

Practice Guides with Adaptations &
Spanish Translations Webinar
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Welcome!
• Introductions
• Overview
– Today’s Webinar
– Webinar Series
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Today’s Webinar
• Training Reminders
• Universal Practice Guides
• Translated Practice Guides
• Practice Guides with Adaptations
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Training Reminders – Use the Participatory Adult
Learning Strategy
Introduce
Deep Understanding:
Reflection and Mastery
Illustrate
Practice
Evaluate
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Training Reminders – Focus on the Early Literacy Learning Model
Everyday
Literacy
Activities
Early
Literacy
Outcomes
Child
Interests
Responsive
Teaching
Literacy-Rich Environments
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Training Reminders - Tools & Resources
• Tools for training and use in the field:
– http://www.earlyliteracylearning.org/ta_pract_tools1.php
• Other resources:
– http://www.earlyliteracylearning.org/ta_pract_main.php
• Distance Learning Website:
– http://www.earlyliteracylearning.org/dl_overview.php
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What is a CELL practice guide?
• Developed to help practitioners & parents
promote infants’, toddlers’, and preschoolers’
literacy learning using interest-based, highly
engaging activities
• Each practice guide asks and answers:
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What is the practice?
What does the practice look like?
How do you do the practice?
How do you know the practice worked?
• Each practice guide has three vignettes that
illustrate the early literacy practice described
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What is a CELL practice guide?
• Can be used by parents, practitioners who work
with parents, and practitioners who work directly
with children
• Can be used with infants, toddlers, and
preschoolers
• Cover all domains of early literacy - listening
comprehension, oral language, phonological
awareness, print awareness, written language,
alphabet knowledge, and text comprehension
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What are the types of CELL practice guides?
• Universal Practice Guides
– A set for use by parents and practitioners who work
with parents; some available in Spanish
– A set for use by practitioners who work directly with
children
• Practice Guides with Adaptations
– A set for use by parents or practitioners
• Specialized Practice Guides (forthcoming)
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Universal Practice Guides
Infant – English
Infant – Spanish
Toddler – English
Toddler – Spanish
Preschooler – English
Preschooler - Spanish
Total – English
Total – Spanish
Parent
29
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23
6
16
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68
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Practitioner
30
0
23
0
15
0
68
0
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Universal Practice Guides – English and
Spanish Examples
• Universal Practice Guides are located at :
http://www.earlyliteracylearning.org/productsct.php
• English example:
– For parents of preschoolers -“A is for Apple”
• Spanish example:
– For parents of preschoolers -“M de Mama”
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Practice Guides with Adaptations
• For use by parents or practitioners with children
with disabilities to make it easier for them to
participate in early literacy learning activities
Parents/Practitioners
Infants
Toddlers
Preschoolers
Total
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5
5
15
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Why Adaptations?
• Ensure that children with disabilities:
– Can express their interests and have them interpreted
correctly
– Can engage in early literacy activities
– Can become skillful and competent in early literacy
activities and behaviors
– Can master early literacy behaviors
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Adaptation Continuum
• Remember the adaptation continuum – provide
the least intrusive adaptation necessary for the
child to participate in an activity
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Adapt environment
Adapt activity
Adapt materials
Adapt instruction
Provide direct assistance
• The practice guides with adaptations were
developed with this continuum in mind
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Practice Guides with Adaptations - Example
• Practice Guides with Adaptations are located at :
http://www.earlyliteracylearning.org/pg_tier2.php
• Example:
– For toddlers - “Book Reading Made Fun for All”
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Wrap-up
• Questions & Answers
• Upcoming webinars
– Profile CELL products, on the website now at
http://www.earlyliteracylearning.org/ta_pract_main.php
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More Information?
For more Technical Assistance support please visit;
http://www.EarlyLiteracyLearning.org
Or send an email to [email protected]
Please reference CELL in the subject line.
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