Rock Your Classroom – Focus on Embedding Instruction – with Universal strategies, targeted supports, and intensive intervention strategies Note: Suggestions for Connections to COS are highlighted in red text.
TATS Talks to Professionals – Special Education Interventions in Pre-K
Breadth of the Three Child Outcomes
Effective Use of Technology in PreK
Contents: Click on area of focus below:
Links for documents included in the five focus topics listed in the boxes above:
Links: Adaptive and Self-Care Skills
- COS Connections: Adaptive and Independent Functioning Skills
- Addressing Adaptive Skills in the Classroom (correlation to FELDS)
- Helping Children Develop Independence
- Links to Documents Addressing Adaptive Skills in the Classroom
Links: Gross Motor and Fine Motor
- COS Connections: Gross and Fine Motor Skills
- Head Start Body Start: Simple Ways to Get Moving
- Best Practices for Incorporating Motor Skills – from Nemours
- Examples of Fine Motor Classroom Activities
- Accommodations for Supporting Children in Art and Fine Motor Activities
Links: Social and Emotional Skills
- COS Connections: Social and Emotional Skills
- Tips to Consider – Reflecting on Challenging Behavior
- Addressing Social Skills in the Classroom – FELDS correlations
- Head Start – News You Can Use – Foundations of Social Development
- TATS Focus on Social Skills and Classroom Behavior – links to strategies
- TATS Focus on Embedding Social Skills – links to strategies
- Supports for Helping Children Interact and Play with Peers
- Process for Teaching Social Skills – from CEC
- Links: Language and Communication
- COS Connections: Communication and Language Skills
- Strategies for Promoting Communication
- Enhancing Children’s Language Development in Preschool Classrooms
- TATS Talks to Professionals – Supporting Communication
- Addressing Communication Skills in the Classroom (correlations to FELDS)
- Supporting Various Ages and Developmental Levels in the Classroom
- Helping Team Members Respond to Various Modes of Communication
- TATS Talks – Integrated Therapy
Links: Emergent Literacy
- COS Connections: Emergent Literacy
- Individualizing Instruction in Preschool Classrooms
- Read and Repeat – Suggestions from Center for Early Literacy and Learning
- Visuals for Supporting Instruction
- Adapting Materials and Activities
- Using Adapted Books to Encourage Participation and Teach Core Words
- Developing supports for Literacy and Writing Centers