Welcome!

Welcome to our Wiki for LLED 6420! We have created this page in the hopes of having an "all inclusive" website that provides us, our classmates, other teachers, and parents with information and resources for literacy development during the early childhood years. We feel it is necessary to create this page so that others can have access to the wonderful information we have encountered, used, and researched throughout the Spring 2011 semester in our class, LLED 6420 Literacy Development in Early Childhood.

 The Wiki can be broken down into six sections. The first section uncovers the world of Book Acting and Reader's Theater. This section offers ideas, rationales, and resources for including these activities in the classroom. It also explains the benefits of the inclusion of the two into the early childhood classroom. The second section is over Digital Storytelling. Digital Storytelling engages students in the information they are learning and helps motivate students to learn and showcase their work. The third page of the Wiki covers Language Play. Language Play helps children discover language and, ultimately, can help them become better readers and writers. The next section of the Wiki is entitled //Literacy Environment.// This section discusses the importance of a comfortable literacy environment and the use of environmental print in the classroom. The fifth section discusses Multicultural Literacy and its necessity in the ever-changing, ever-diverse, present-day classroom. Lastly, we offer information and resources for the use of Phonics in the early childhood classroom.

 We hope the website allows you to become more familiar with the topics covered. Furthermore, please use the many resources we have given you to uncover potential activities, information, videos, and lesson plans for the use in your classroom or with your own child.