The presenter describes ways to immerse children in literacy through dramatic play. She also incorporates the concepts of integrating informational text to promote literacy along with suggestions for connecting school and home through a variety of motivational activities. The strategies discussed involve activities that focus on bas reading and emergent literacy concepts.
Most activities are hands-on and can be modified in complexity as the students' abilities develop.
Research and the Delaware Commission for Reading Success will be used as examples to support the need for the use of on-going assessment to guide literacy instruction. The workshop focuses on small group Guided Reading instruction as the heart of a total literacy program within the classroom. Workshop 1 introduces participants to the types of questions and the DSTP reading configurations. Prototype questions for stances and standards are reviewed. Workshop participants work in groups to determine the stances of sample questions and score sample work.