Ready DLL Mobile App

The Ready DLL app offers access to resources and strategies for supporting children who are dual language learners (DLLs). Teachers and caregivers can also learn key words and phrases in seven languages.

Focus on Book Knowledge and Print Concepts

Learn how to promote the Planned Language Approach's Book Knowledge and Print Concepts in your program. Explore the research and the development trajectory for these skills in children ages birth to 5.

Planned Language Approach (PLA): Big 5 for ALL

Young children who are dual language learners (DLLs) and those who speak English all require high-quality experiences in: Alphabet Knowledge and Early Writing; Background Knowledge; Book Knowledge and Print Concepts; Oral Language and Vocabulary; and Phonological Awareness.

Planned Language Approach: Phonological Awareness

Learn ways to develop young children’s phonological awareness and how families can help their children build this key skill. Find out how kindergartner, Joan, developed phonological awareness from birth.

Planned Language Approach: Background Knowledge

Discover how young children’s background knowledge is key to learning as well as ways parents and families can support it. Learn how background knowledge develops through the eyes of kindergartener, “Joan.”