ILA The Heart of Family Literacy Spring 2016

ILA: The Heart of Family Literacy Spring 2016 Family Literacy Symposium Rose Gioia Fine & Donna Dencler, Consultants Rosalie Massie, Children’s Workbox Christine Houck, PDE Advisor ILA

Warm Up with Smartphones • On your Smartphone or tablet, go to www. socrative. com • Sign in as a student. • Enter this Room#: 8 NGNHA 07 • Type in your answer to this question: What burning question did you bring to today’s ILA Symposium?

Objectives • Refresh understanding of PDE’s policy and guidance on ILA • Reflect on strengths and weaknesses of my program’s ILA practices • Articulate best practices for ILA • Learn about resources for creating quality ILA • Review/revise a lesson plan for ILA in my program • Share ideas with colleagues from other programs • Write an action plan for improved ILA in my program

Best Practices in ILA • Lesson plans linked to Early Childhood assessments and PA learning standards • Majority Face to Face (ideally 3 hours per week) • Home ILA as supplement • Documented with reflection sheets • Closely connected to Parent Education • Focused on literacy development • Parents are coached/mentored while working with their own children • Conducted in child-centered setting • Regularly scheduled as part of class calendar

Break-out Group Sessions Why do ILA? Inspiration from “Bringing Up” http: //bringingup. com/users/welcome Striving for Best Practices • Ideas for child-centered and adult-centered ILAs Group #1: Rosie Massie: 10: 30 – 11: 15 Donna & Rose: 11: 15 – 12: 00 Group #2: Donna & Rose: 10: 30 – 11: 15 Rosie Massie: 11: 15 – 12: 00

Family Literacy • Adult Education • Early Childhood Education • Parenting Education • Interactive Literacy Activities

Assessment- Guide Instruction • Diagnostic • Progress Monitoring

Assessments Drive Instruction PALS-Pre. K • Name Writing • Upper-Case Alphabet Recognition • Lower-Case Alphabet Recognition • Letter Sounds • Beginning Sound Awareness • Print and Word Awareness • Rhyme Awareness • Nursery Rhyme Awareness

Name Writing • Create name cards and matching “cut-apart” names for each child • Children match the letters of their name to the name card • Put the letters in envelopes with the children’s names on the outside • Put the envelopes into a “Name Puzzles” center when children are ready to rebuild their names more independently

Dialogic Reading • A form of shared reading where the adult and child switch roles so the child becomes the storyteller while the adult assists as an active listener • Requires multiple readings of the same book • Adult uses higher-level prompts to encourage the child to go beyond naming objects/actions to higher level thinking

PEER Dialogic Process • PROMPT the child with a question about the story (“What kind of animal is this story about? ”; • EVALUATE & EXPAND on the child’s response to your questions (“Yes, it is a dog. He is a very big, red dog. ”) • REPEAT the question as a check for comprehension or to see if the child has more to add

Embedded vocabulary instruction • Select words to teach • Review story book • Consider “Tiered” words • Choose Tier 2 words for universal instruction, based on frequency/ease of definition/ significance to story/illustrations • May choose Tier 1 words for some children (Spencer, Goldstein, & Kaminski, 2012)

Resources • https: //pals. virginia. edu/parents-monthly-activity. html • https: //pals. virginia. edu/tools-activities. html

Engagement Strategies Anna Jane Shally: • Practices that help engage ALL children in ILA Bridge to Practice: • Evaluate a recent ILA through the lens of engagement strategies and best practices.

ILA Improvement Plans • What does your evaluation of a recent ILA reveal about your strengths and weaknesses? • Share with partners from another program. • Choose 2 priorities and create an action plan to achieve your desired outcome.

Wrap Up & Exit Tickets Return to www. socrative. com and find 3 questions contained in the Exit Ticket. Answer Questions #1 & 2. Teacher’s Question #3: • Cite one thing you plan to change or work on improving after today’s symposium.