Classroom Early Literacy Learning

Practice Guides Especially for Practitioners

These guides can be used by early childhood educators, child care providers, early interventionists, and other early childhood practitioners for promoting infants, toddlers, and preschoolers literacy learning using interest-based and highly engaging activities.
Practitioner practice guides
for Infants

for Toddlers

for Preschoolers

Self-Guided Learning Module:
Early Literacy Learning

The Self-Guided Learning Module for Early Literacy Learning is designed to be used as a self-study in which you can learn at your own pace. This module focuses on the domains of early literacy learning.
self guided module
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Practice Guides with Adaptations

These guides make it easier for young children with disabilities to participate in early literacy learning activities.
Meals and snacks poster 
Go to Adaptations

Practice Guides Especially for Parents

These guides can be used by parents to provide their infants, toddlers, or preschoolers fun and exciting literacy learning experiences and opportunities, or by practitioners who are working with parents to promote their use of literacy learning activities with their children.
Parent practice guides
for Infants

for Toddlers

for Preschoolers

CELLcasts

These are audio/visual versions of CELL Practice Guides. They available for users to watch and listen to online or download to their iPod/Mp3 player.
Meals and snacks poster
for Infants

for Toddlers

for Preschoolers

Practice Guides in Spanish

Select Parent Practice Guides are available in Spanish
Parent Practice Guides in Spanish  
for Infants

for Toddlers

for Preschoolers

CELL Mini Posters & CELLpops

They provide teachers with simple ways to enhance daily activities and routines with literacy specific opportunities.
On a Field Trip class poster
Go to CELLpops
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