Language & Literacy for Young Learners: Foundations

In Language & Literacy for Young Learners: Foundations, participants learn instructional strategies for prerequisite literacy and language skills through lessons that integrate science, social studies, and math. Participants examine the research behind why oral language and preliteracy skill-building matter before kindergarten, so they can evaluate or strengthen whatever curriculum they're already using with young children.

Audience: Pre-K and kindergarten teachers, and educators of prereaders at any grade level.

Details: Runs 3 hours, on-demand. Curriculum-agnostic — covers instructional strategies rather than the LLYL curriculum itself; does not include a lesson plan or routine.

Participants leave with evidence-based instructional strategies for early literacy and language development — not a scope and sequence or lesson routine — that can also be used as supplemental instruction alongside a core reading program.

Prerequisites: None.