Core Components
Below are useful resources to enhance your current program or help guide you as a local program coordinator.
The files are a mixture of PDF and Word files. Files include reproducible resources on Early Childhood Education, School Age, Adult Education, Parenting & Interactive Literacy Activities.
Early Childhood Education
eLearning Tutorials
The lessons in the E-learning section of this website reinforce the critical nature of Even Start’s underlying purpose- to support the literacy needs of children, parents and families. Lessons in the Early Childhood Component part of E-learning provide detailed information about scientific research findings, content, and teaching strategies that promote literacy and learning.
| Interactive Literacy: Interactive Reading for Toddlers & Preschoolers |
Resources
- Infants: A Child Becomes A Reader Birth to Preschool
- Toddlers: A Child Becomes A Reader Birth to Preschool
- A Child Becomes A Reader - Kindergarten Through Grade 3
- Put Reading First Kindergarten Through Grade 3
- Put Reading First in Spanish
- Teaching Our Youngest - A Guide For Preschool Teachers
ED Workshop: "Even Start Early Childhood and Parenting Education Training: Making Meaningful Changes in Program Design"
In 2003 and 2004 USDE sponsored a series of regional trainings to promote research-based early childhood and parenting education. The materials produced for these trainings are available for Even Start State Coordinators to reproduce and use with local grantees. To access the materials click on the links below.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Module 1: Content Planning
Module 2: Teaching Strategies
Module 3: Practice and Play
Module 4: Assessments
- Module 4: Assessment for Individualization Presentation Slides
- Module 4 handout 1
- Module 4 handout 2
- Module 4 handout 3
Language Development
Local Program Strategies in Practice
Planning Tools
Presentation Developers and Speakers
Archived Materials
Adult Education
eLearning Tutorials
Resources
- Adult Learners: Teaching Strategies to Improve Learning and Comprehension
- Research Based Principles for Adult Basic Education Reading Instruction
Archived Materials
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Parenting Education
eLearning Tutorials
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Resources
Archived Materials
Parenting & Interactive Literacy Activities
eLearning Tutorials
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Resources
ED Workshop: "Reading and Talking Together: Promoting Research-Based Practice in Parent-Child Interactive Literacy Activities" (SEPTEMBER 2006)
In 2005 and 2006 USDE sponsored a series of regional trainings to promote research-based parent-child interactive literacy activities. The materials produced for these trainings are available for Even Start State Coordinators to reproduce and use with local grantees. To access the materials below.
1. Powerpoints and Other Materials
Research and Framework
2. Diverse Families
3. Parenting Education
4. Other Print and Stories
- 6 Other Print & Stories Knapp-Philo.pdf
- Handout 1_Stories.pdf
- Handout 2_Music.pdf
- Handout 3_Follow the car.pdf
- Handout 4_Viewing Guide.pdf
- Video Ordering Information.doc
5. Book Reading 0-3
- 7 Book Reading 0-3 Knapp-Philo.pdf
- Handout 1- Dev accomplish.pdf
- Handout 2_Follow the Car.pdf
- Video Ordering Information.doc