Resource Links
Teacher Education
- Jennifer Gonzalez Cult of Pedagogy www.cultofpedagogy.com/
- Brene Brown Daring Classrooms https://brenebrown.com/daringclassrooms
Language Acquisition
- Talk - tips for techers to promote oral language at home http://faculty.tamuc.edu/jthompson/talk
- Hand Work - tips for teachers to promote integration of hand development and oral language development http://faculty.tamuc.edu/jthompson/hand
- Language .pps
- What Teachers Need to Know about Language .pps
- Fillmore & Snow (2000) .pdf
- Why Reading is Hard .htm
- BICS and CALP.doc
- Learn English Effectively
- Phonetics Chart .pdf
- Ethnologue.com
- Wiki Junior: Languages
- Oral Language Lessons .pdf
- Oral Literacy Lessons .pdf
Emergent Literacy
- www.ChildrensLibrary.net
- Strickland (2006) Early Literacy .pdf
- Strickland (2007) What Makes a Good Book .ppt
- Total Literacy .ppt
- Five Big Ideas of Early Literacy .doc
- Dickinson & Tabors (2002) Fostering Language & Literacy .pdf
- The Vaughan Gross Center for Reading and Language Arts - University of Texas
- Phonological Awareness Definitions .pdf
- Phonological Awareness Continuum .pdf
- Phonological Awareness Lessons .pdf
- Phonological Awareness Activity Cards .pdf
- Alphabetic Principle Definitions .pdf
- Letter-sound correspondences .pdf
- Phonics - Red Book 3 .pdf
- Writing and Literacy Development .ppt
- Scrambled Text .html
- Guided Reading .htm
- Fillmore & Snow (2000) What Teachers Need to Know about Language .html
- Snow (2002) Why Reading is Hard .html
- Leveled Reading .xls
- Comprehension Activity .pdf
- Comprehension Definitions .pdf
- Comprehension Questions .pdf
- Comprehension Questions .ppt
- DIBELS .ppt
- Fluency.pdf
- Language Arts TAKS Alignment .pdf
- Bertie Kingore .com A wealth of early literacy resources
- TAKS Alignment .pdf
- Flyleaf Publishing
- Ladybird Books
- The Florida Center for Reading Research fcrr.org
Early Childhood Education
- Child Care Quality
- Poems, Songs, Nursery Rhymes
- Early Childhood Education.htm
- A Linear View of Early Learning Theories
- Growing up Different www.pbs.org
- Glossary of Terms Related to Ethics
- Head Start: Current Initiatives
- Head Start 101.pdf
- Response to Intervention InterventionCentral.org
- KTRA: Learning Centers.pdf
- KTRA: Small Group Management.pdf
- KTRA: Small Group Reading & Writing.pdf
- Professional Development.ppt
- A Montessori Primer .htm
- Hundred Language Zoo.doc
- Hundred Languages of Childhood.ppt
- Hundred Language Zoo (2003) Dimensions of Early Childhood 31(1) 13-20.pdf
- Guiding the Behavior of Young Children.ppt
- A Linear View of Early Learning Theories.doc
- A Child’s Right to Creative Expression.ppt
- Diveristy.ppt
- Montessori Method
- Multiple Intelligence Profile (from SurfAquarium.com)
- Middle Childhood
- Power of Observation.pdf
- Real-people Rainwater Environmental Alliance for Learning
- Reggio Emilia Resources
Training Parent Educators
- www.MenTeach.org
- Men's Retreat .pdf
- Parenting .pps
- Family Literacy .rtf
- Father Brochure .pdf
- Infant Crying: To Soothe or Not to Soothe .doc
- Tears As Tools .rtf
- Infant Cry .ppt
- Men in Early Childhood Care & Education New Zealand
- Moral Education
- Nat'l Center on Fathering
- Nat'l Council on Family Relations
- Nat'l Network of Partnership Schools
- Parents as Teachers
- Smart Marriages
- www.StrongFathers.com