Administrators’ Resources – Focus on Communication and Language

Focus on Communication and Language

Evidence-based Practices – Embedding Communication and Language Skills

Communication Skills (TATS page link)

Strategies for Encouraging Communication – one-page pdf from Virtual Lab School of University of Ohio

Encouraging Oral Language – Summary of Suggestions from Learning to Talk and Listen, a project by National Institute of Literacy

 3b. Conversations are encouraged and observed

Talk, Read, and Sing Together Every Day – Ideas for engaging children in conversation – published by partnership of Too Young to Fail, Head Start, and Center for Early Learning and Literacy – pdf

Reading with Children is an Opportunity for Conversation – Summary of Suggestions from Learning to Talk and Listen, a project of National Institute of Literacy

Using Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) in PreK classrooms and   Resources for Core Vocabulary

Resources related to AAC and Core Vocabulary

Using Core Vocabulary during Classroom Routines – suggestions from UNC at Chapel Hill – Center for Learning and Disability Services – pdf