TRAINING DATES
• ELLM/Plus Training Calendar
ELLM/Plus Program
Description
• Overview
• Children's Book List
• Classroom Instructional
and Classroom Materials
• Classroom Model
• Monthly Themes to Extend
Concept Development
• References
ELLM/Plus Ordering
Information
• ELLM/Plus Curriculum Kit
9 Month Kit
• ELLM/Plus Curriculum Kit
12 Month Kit
• ELLM/Plus Replacement
Children's Books
• ELLM/Plus Replacement
Materials
• Low Performing VPK Rate
Provider Training
• ELLM/Plus Summer VPK
• School Readiness Resources
ELLM/Plus Performance
Standards
• Performance Standards
ELLM/Plus Assessment
• Assessment
ELLM/Plus Research Base
• Research Base
• Research Behind ELLM/Plus
ELLM/Plus Family Model
• Family Model
• Family Tips (English and
Spanish)
• Take Home Bracelets
(English and Spanish)
ELLM/Plus Support
Components
• Print Concepts
• Word Wall
• School Readiness Standards
Child Milestones
• Child Milestones and Early
Brain Development
ELLM/Plus VPK
Curriculum
• ELLM/Plus Summer
Voluntary Prekindergarten
(VPK) Curriculum 2007
Bringing Baby Home
• Bringing Baby Home
Additional Resources
• Website for Children
• Inexpensive Literacy
Materials and Activities
• Levels of Phonological
Awareness
• Phoneme Chart
• Rhyming Words
• Glossary of Terms
ELLM/Plus Publications
and Presentations
• Publications & Presentations
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ELLM/Plus teachers are committed to increasing
instruction in the classroom. For 2 hours each day, they provide children with
learning activities designed to build the skills they need to become ready readers and learners. The ELLM/Plus
Classroom Model builds on critical elements needed for literacy
and reading success. Each ELLM/Plus teacher receives a monthly instructional
packet and corresponding books that provide sample activities
in the following areas:
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ELLM/Plus supports both content and instructional strategies designed to increase children's opportunities to learn and acquire the basic skills they need to become responsive and successful learners. Instructional strategies focus on intentional, explicit teaching and the integration of literacy, mathematics, science, social studies, the arts, social/emotional development and motor development. ELLM/Plus teachers build trusting relationships by planning for student engagements that supports and encourages appropriate development and learning. |
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ELLM/Plus teachers receive 12 monthly instructional packets - September through August. Each instructional packet focuses on two to four children's books and teachers use one packet per month. There are two stand-alone packets, Motor Development and Physical Health. These packets provide a wide array of activities teacher can integrate into their daily schedules. Taken together, the packets are designed to help children achieve important readiness skills and knowledge.
Each instructional packet contains multi-leveled activities in each of the content areas. ELLM/Plus teachers spend about one hour per day on literacy related activities and about two hours per day on non-literacy related activities. Teachers begin the day by greeting and focusing children with routines that start the day. The day continues with intentional whole group instructional sessions, followed up with explicit small group lessons at the Teaching Table. Children are given opportunities to practice new skills through time at various learning centers. |
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ELLM/Plus teachers engage children in daily whole-group and small-group lessons from the instructional packets and include Concept Development and Vocabulary Booster activities throughout the day.
During learning center times, ELLM/Plus teachers work with small groups of children through focused, intentional instruction at the small group Teaching Table. The Teaching Table is an adult-led learning center in which three to six children receive 8 to 15 minutes of instruction and practice on the concepts and skills taught during a
whole-group lesson. The ELLM/Plus Teaching Table extends whole group instruction by providing children with guided practice to scaffold the learning process. |
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This schedule is designed to engage children in whole-group, small-group, and individualized learning situations throughout the day to promote teacher direction and independent choices by children.
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8:30–9:00
9:00–9:25
9:30–9:40
9:40–10:00
10:00–10:05
10:00–10:30
10:30–10:45
10:45–11:00
11:00–11:10
11:10–11:30
11:30–11:45
11:45–12:15
12:15–12:45
12:45–1:00
1:00–2:30
2:30–2:45
2:45–3:00
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Morning Activities: Personally Greet Parents and Children, Morning Message, Sharing, Songs, Introduction to Day, Self-Help and Daily Routines, and Independent Free Play
Reading Aloud and Emergent Comprehension, Conversations About Books, and/or Vocabulary Booster Activity
Music, Motor, and Song Activities
Whole-group Literacy Lessons: Print Concepts, Oral Language and Listening, Letter-Sound, Phonological Awareness, and Emergent Writing
Transition to Centers
Literacy Centers: Teaching Table, Listening, Letter, Writing
Free Choice Centers: Independent Reading Center, Word Wall Housekeeping/Community Center, Dramatic Play Center
Music, Motor and Song Activities
Independent Reading
Reading Aloud, Vocabulary Booster Activity, and Concept Development
Lunch and Self-Care Routines
Outdoor Time: Fine and Gross Motor Activities, and Music Activities
Nap/Rest Time
Whole-Group Lessons: Mathematics, Social Studies, Science, Physical Health
Transition to Centers–Independent Group Work: Teaching Table, Housekeeping/Community Center, Exploration Center, Dramatic Play Center, and Blocks
Reading Aloud and Print Concepts
Conversations about Books and/or Vocabulary Booster Activity
Independent Learning Center Time:
Mathematics and Science Exploration Center
Social Studies in the Housekeeping/Community Center
Art and Music Center
Dramatic Center
Blocks
Reading Aloud and Concept Development
Transition to End-of-Day Routine: Review Concepts Learned, Songs, Dismissal
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8:30–8:45
8:45–9:00
9:00–9:15
9:15–9:30
9:30–10:30
10:30–11:00
11:00–11:30
11:30–11:45
11:45–12:00
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Morning Activities
Reading Aloud and Emergent Comprehension
Music, Motor, and Song Activities
Whole-group Literacy Lessons
Literacy Centers and Teaching Table
Outdoor Time
Whole-group Non-literacy Lesson and Centers
Reading Aloud and Emergent Comprehensive
End-of-Day Routine
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