Promoting Literacy in Kindergarten

Presentation by Mary Kurtak

Wilkes EDIM 510

Goals

• Instill a love of reading

• Encourage parental involvement• DRA level readiness for first grade

School

• Follow district’s planning and scheduling timeline

• Collaborate with Pre-K, Kindergarten, and first grade teachers

• Differentiate based on student need• Print rich classroom• Organize classroom library• Model personal love of reading

Home

• Read daily

• Discuss what you read together

• Utilize environmental print

• Use flashcards for letter and sight word practice

• Play literacy based games

• Visit the library

Educating Parents Through Workshops

• Teach parents how to play literacy games

• Discuss environmental print

• Model a literacy lesson

• Demonstrate age appropriate online literacy tools

• Inform parents of grade level expectations

• Involvement=Success

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