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Research-based professional development services
for principals, directors, reading coaches,
and teachers Pre-k through 3rd grade.
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Components of CLI's Program
• Developing Engaging Read Alouds
Because being read to adds directly to children's knowledge and vocabulary, experts stress the importance of reading aloud to students. |
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At the writing center, a first-grader has word books,
a dry-erase board and pen to work with. Activities can include writing a letter or writing about a book. |
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We instruct teachers to promote children's interest in books by reading aloud expressively, and to use books to build comprehension and vocabulary by asking open-ended questions.
• Encouraging
Writing Skills
It is important to develop writing skills in young children, as language and literacy work together. Starting from infancy, almost everything that children learn about listening and talking contributes to their ability to read and write.
CLI trains teachers to incorporate writing in every classroom center, and to provide ample writing opportunities for their students. |
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• Creating a Literacy-Rich Environment in the Classroom
Displays of children's writing, labeling, signs, and books in
all areas of the classroom help immerse students in print conventions (such as punctuation and the way words are read) while providing them with a context for new vocabulary and letters.
A literacy-rich environment includes interactive instructional materials created by the teachers and a collection of quality books on display with their covers facing outwards. |
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• Designing a Center-Based Classroom
Work centers are physical areas of the classroom designated for learning and practice with specific instructional goals. Early childhood centers include such areas as a Library Center, Writing Center, Science and Discovery Center, and a Math Center. Classroom centers should be challenging and purposeful and the objective of each center activity should be targeted towards reaching classroom literacy goals. |
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At the science center, reading and writing are tools for learning. A book on frogs, alphabet tiles to spell with, tadpoles in a water tank, and paper and pens provide a purposeful learning opportunity. The results of a kindergartner's tadpole study are displayed on the classroom wall. |
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CLI professional developers not only visit classrooms to help teachers rearrange and refine their classrooms, they also provide useful literacy instructional materials and activities that are theme- or content-related.
Teachers learn classroom management skills in order to provide effective individual and small-group reading instruction and to promote independent learning. |
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• Using Message Time Plus®
In this seven-step process, the teacher plans a written message to
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During Message Time Plus in a Camden first grade, students come forward to demonstrate their understanding of letters, words, and punctuation. These daily lessons provide opportunities for teachers to introduce more print conventions and more vocabulary while assessing individual progress. |
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meet standards and reinforce content and skills being studied. He or she then writes it as students watch and participate by making predictions. After the message is completely written, children come to the board and identify elements they know, such as letters, words or punctuation, and their learning is then extended by the teacher through scaffolding and mini-lessons targeted to each child's level of knowledge.
Message Time Plus increases children's knowledge of print conventions and acquaints children with written language in a meaningful context. |
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Professional Development Services:
For principals, directors, reading coaches, and teachers Pre-k through 3rd grade.
Institutes and seminars immerse participants in the most current research in exemplary practices. CLI trainings, held in small groups of fifteen people, build on prior knowledge and move toward clear outcomes through discussions, small-group and hands-on work, multi-media, and developing solutions to real-life classroom problems. Teachers learn a range of literacy practices; and staff developers learn techniques for supporting teachers. Principals work primarily on issues of literacy leadership.
- Institutes
- Institute for New Teachers, 4 days
- Institute for Teachers, 3 days
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Seminars (one-day)
- Reading Aloud to Support Instruction: Phonics and Phonemic Awareness
- Reading Aloud to Support Instruction: Fluency and Comprehension
- Reading Aloud to Support Instruction: Developing Vocabulary
- Learning Centers and Small Group Learning
- Message Time Plus®
- Message Time Plus® II
- Literacy Environment: Setting the Stage for Success
- Writer’s Workshop
- Workshops
(two-hour)
- Developing Learning Applications “Make and Take”
- Using Informational Books for Instruction
- Intentional Read Alouds: Using Literature for Instruction
- Author Study
- Managing Learning Centers and Small Group Learning
- Using Songs and Rhymes to Develop Phonemic Awareness
- Evaluating Student Writing to Inform Instruction
- Interactive Writing
- Literacy Environment
- Learning to Present a Parent Meeting on Literacy
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Coaching (one-on-one)
To deepen, expand, and sustain professional learning, CLI offers individual coaching by our highly experienced professional developers. CLI professional developers work in classrooms to help teachers create a literacy environment and implement the skills and strategies learned in CLI trainings. We help reading coaches evaluate the needs and culture of the school and learn how to encourage effective literacy practices in the classroom.
Grade Level Meetings
CLI strives to build a culture of literacy by working with grade level teams to plan lessons, critique student work, refine instruction, and observe and discuss demonstration lessons.
Working with Parents
Because of the importance of literacy at home, CLI has parent workshops, complete with materials and books for parents to take home.
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Books and Literacy
Materials that are Offered
In
addition to training, CLI provides classrooms with books and
materials to help implement effective literacy practices.
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Classroom Collections - To support and develop the most effective literacy practices, CLI provides high-quality classroom book collections. Research shows that reading aloud from quality children's literature is the only reliable source of rich vocabulary in daily classroom life. CLI's collections of multicultural, award-winning children's books are also the best tools for building world knowledge. Collections include fiction, nonfiction, poetry, folk tales, and series, chapter, and picture books; collections are available for pre-k through 3rd grades. CLI also creates customized book collections for Spanish, bilingual English/Spanish, and special education classrooms. |
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• Home Lending Libraries - To further the idea that literacy belongs at home as well as at school, CLI offers a Home Lending collection to provide high-quality children's books in more affordable paperback versions. These collections are a mixture of books for children to read on their own and books for parents to read to their children. |
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• Alphabet Knowledge explains the nuances of teaching letter recognition, phonemic awareness, and phonological awareness, and includes numerous activities to engage students in learning each critical aspect of alphabet knowledge.
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• Individual Student Writing Boxes - Giving children their own boxes of writing materials helps children to be excited about writing and work creatively. The CLI Writing Box contains a wide variety of grade-appropriate writing tools including an assortment of memo and message pads, markers, postcards, pencils and erasers, sticky notes, crayons or colored pencils, and a hardbound blank book for students to publish their own work.
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• Author Packs -
The CLI Author Pack is a collection of books by a single author or writing team. It includes four to seven titles, a biography and portrait of the author, and other background information useful in creating an author study. Available in English, Spanish, or bilingual.
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