Toddler Practice Guides for Practitioners

Literacy-Rich Experiences - These practice guides illustrate how practitioners can arrange environments to encourage toddlers to listen, communicate, and develop the skills needed for early literacy.

Storytelling and Listening - These practice guides illustrate ways to introduce books to toddlers to encourage them to listen, communicate, and actively participate in storytelling and book reading.

Sound and Phonemic Awareness - These practice guides illustrate ways that practitioners can enhance toddlers abilities to distinguish different sounds and phonemes.

Nonverbal Communication and Signing - This practice guide highlights the ways that practitioners can help toddlers communicate their wants and needs to others using gestures and signs.

Alphabet Awareness - These practice guides illustrate ways to introduce the letters of the alphabet to toddlers to develop beginning skills for recognizing letters.

Emergent Writing - These practice guides include activities that practitioners can use to promote toddlers abilities to scribble and draw.

Talking and Listening - These practice guides illustrate ways that practitioners can promote toddlers use of spoken words and their development of early listening skills.