ELLM/Plus One –Day (6 hours) Introductory Training is designed to help participants implement ELLM/Plus in their classrooms. Participants will learn to use strategies designed to increase children’s literacy and language experiences through interactive read-alouds, whole and small group learning strategies, and create classrooms environments where children learn to play and play to learn.

Topics Covered

•  Using the ELLM/Plus Monthly Instructional Packets to organize and implement literacy
   and language instruction each day
•  Setting up classrooms that promote learning and positive interactions
•  Planning and scheduling daily learning activities
•  Helping children build their background knowledge and vocabulary
•  Using informal assessment to scaffold learning
•  Promoting children’s language and literacy development through adult-child and
   child-child conversations
•  Connecting home and school learning

One-Day Training

Date/Time:              Friday, October 23, 2009 8:00 a.m.- 3:00 p.m.

Location:                University Center, University of North Florida 12000 Alumni Drive                                 Jacksonville, Florida 32224*
Cost:                       $238 per participant (includes training and materials) Minimum of 8                                 participants required

Please call Howaida Mousa, Senior Grants Specialist, (904.620.2496) for Registration Information

*Training outside the Jacksonville area requires travel costs determined by length and location of training.