Course Details

CCEI3024: Supporting Family Literacy

Course ID 71024

ChildCare Education Institute

(800) 499-9907

Description

This course explains the benefits of supporting family literacy and discusses ways parents and teachers can encourage the development of reading and writing skills. Participants will learn strategies and methods to help parents establish developmentally appropriate practices at home in order to promote early literacy skills and a lifelong love of reading and knowledge.

1.00 Hours / 0.10 CEUs

Course Level

Informal

CEU Course

Course Category

Early Childhood

General Course

(1 Hour)

CDA Content Areas

Strategies to establish productive relationships with families (1 Hour)

Infant Mental Health Core Competency Areas

Family Child Care Home Provider

Child Care Center Staff

Head Start/Early Head Start

Parents

Infants (0-12 months)

Toddlers (13-24 months)

Two's (25-36 months)

Preschooler 3's (37-48 months)

Preschool 4's and 5's (49-72 months)

Adults

Goals and Objectives

• Define and identify the benefits of family literacy
• Identify the four components of language
• Identify typical milestones in the development of literacy skills for children in various age ranges
• Identify the importance of speaking and reading aloud to children in order to build early literacy skills
• Define the terms print awareness and print-rich environment
• Identify important elements of early writing skills
• Define phonemic awareness and reading fluency
• Identify activities parents can do in order to build children's vocabularies and other essential components of literacy

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