COD 2009 - K049

Literacy Skills in Kindergarten

Kindergarten teachers, teacher trainees and primary teachers teaching the lower forms.

10 sessions, start: 26-Mar

Course detail

Year: 2009
Level: Kindergarten
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Ms. Luciana Fernández
Print course
ESSARP Schools
ARS
Exams Schools
ARS
Non affiliate
ARS 605.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 26 March 2009 09:00 am 12:00 pm
2 16 April 2009 09:00 am 12:00 pm
3 23 April 2009 09:00 am 12:00 pm
4 07 May 2009 09:00 am 12:00 pm
5 14 May 2009 09:00 am 12:00 pm
6 21 May 2009 09:00 am 12:00 pm
7 28 May 2009 09:00 am 12:00 pm
8 04 June 2009 09:00 am 12:00 pm
9 11 June 2009 09:00 am 12:00 pm
10 18 June 2009 09:00 am 12:00 pm

Facilitator/s

Luciana Fernández

Luciana Fernández is a graduate teacher of English who has been teaching English for the past twenty-nine years. She has specialized in Methodology and Teaching Practice and she holds a Diploma in Educational Research from the University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education. She holds two post graduate certifications in Thinking Cultures and Teaching for Comprehension

She is a Reading and Literacy expert and has been training teachers in this area for the past fifteen years. She is a teacher educator and has designed several presentations and courses for professional development both in Argentina and abroad. Her presentation at ARTESOL 2015 was selected to be presented at TESOL International as a Best Affiliate Session. She is one of the 50 scholarship winners who attended and presented at IATEFL, held in Birmingham in April 2016. She was later on invited to be a presenter at the Young Learners and Teenagers SIG pre conference event and at the main conference.

Luciana has been the Head at several bilingual IB institutions in Buenos Aires. At present she is a school advisor, teacher trainer and facilitator at ESSARP (English Speaking Scholastic Association of the River Plate), where she trains heads and teachers from the most important bilingual institutions in Argentina.
Kindergarten teachers, teacher trainees and primary teachers teaching the lower forms.
- Provide many opportunities for children to explore and identify sound-symbol relationships in meaningful contexts.
- Encourage children to talk about reading and writing experiences.
- Help children to segment spoken words into individual sounds and blend the sounds into whole words (for example, by slowly writing a word and saying its sound).
- Frequently read interesting and conceptually rich stories to children.
- Provide daily opportunities for children to "write".
- Provide daily opportunities for children to "read".
- Create a literacy-rich environment for children to engage independently in reading and writing.
- Pre-school and Kindergarten standards. Characteristics of 3, 4 and 5 year-olds. The successful Literacy Programme in Kindergarten: its components.
- Phonemic Awareness.
- Phonics Instruction.
- Reading.
- Writing.
- Oracy: Listening and Speaking.
- Vocabulary Development.

- What is Phonemic Awareness? Types of Phonemic Awareness tasks.
- What is Phonics? What is synthetic phonics? What is Print Awareness?
- What is alphabet knowledge?
- The Oral language in Kindergarten. Kindergarten oral language standards.
- Listening skills in Kindergarten. Kindergarten Listening standards.
- Home – school connections. Involving parents. Instructing parents. What parents and care-takers can do. Helping parents help.
- Learning centres. Word walls. Classroom routines. Classroom dynamics. Print- rich environments.
- Why Literature in Kindergarten? Recommended Literature for Kindergarten children. Literary analysis in Kindergarten: Literary elements.
Literature Circles.
- Songs and nursery rhymes. How do they help? Songs and Total Physical Response. Songs with repeated patterns. Music in the classroom.
- Kindergarten Reading Standards. The Reading process. Modeling reading. Reading aloud. Shared and Interactive Reading.
- Kindergarten Writing standards. Modeling writing. Collective writing. Independent writing. Letter shaping. Invented / temporary / ear spelling.
- Informal assessment. Formal assessment. Self-assessment.
How and what to assess. The reflective practitioner: assessing one's performance.
- What is early intervention. What is Literacy recovery?
Literacy Recovery Programs.
What kindergarten was like and what it is like today. Different views about the topic. Striking a balance.
In the different sessions, participants will:
- Do different types of activities.
- Discuss a variety of topics.
- Deal with doubts and queries.
- Debate.
- Exchange experiences and anecdotes.
- Analyze cases.
- Assess and self-assess.

At the end of the course, teachers can choose to obtain a certificate of attendance or sit for an exam to obtain credits (GCBA).
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- Saracho, O. N. (2002) Teachers' Roles in Promoting Literacy in the Context of Play. Early Child Development and Care, 172, 23-34.
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