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Supporting Parents in Guiding Early Language and Literacy Development

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What's In This Kit?
This training kit helps teachers understand important skills that children must possess for success in school and in life. This training program contains the following components:

  • Expected training outcomes and learning objectives
  • Training research, models, benchmarks
  • Preparation and implementation steps
  • Handouts
  • The article “‘I Want My Baby to Read’: Supporting Parents in Guiding Early Language and Literacy Development” by Bisa Batten Lewis
  • References and resources
  • Training Certificate for Learner - Certificate of Attendance and Participation

Who's the Target Audience?
The target audiences for this training kit are beginning, intermediate, and advanced Learners who are working with young children (birth through 3 years).

Teacher Skill Level
beginning intermediate advanced
Children's Age Level
infants toddlers preschoolers school-agers birth to 8

Kit Timeline:
Preparation time for this kit is estimated at 1.5 hours. Implementation and actual training time is 3.0 hours, which includes 2 hours of Face-to-Face Training and 1 hour of Independent Study and an Applied Activity Project. An optional Bonus Activity can add up to 1 hour to the training time.


Training Outcomes:

By the end of this training, Learners will be able to:
  • explain the reasons that attempting to teach babies to read is not good practice.
  • identify appropriate language and literacy goals for infants and toddlers.
  • name a variety of appropriate literacy activities for infants and toddlers.
  • develop a plan to communicate with parents about developmentally appropriate practices in language and literacy development.
  • practice answers to parents related to typical questions about infants or toddlers and reading.
These training outcomes address the following American standards:
  • National Association for the Education of Young Children’s (NAEYC) Standards and Accreditation Performance Criteria (2005). More information on NAEYC’s learning standards can be found at www.naeyc.org.


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