Planned Language Approach: Tips for Getting Started
Explore key pieces of information about a Planned Language Approach, including its purpose, benefits, and where to start.
Language and Literacy is one of the five central domains of the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework (ELOF). This collection features resources to help infants, toddlers, and preschoolers understand and respond to communication and language. Some focus on emergent literacy, which refers to the knowledge and skills that lay the foundation for reading and writing skills.
Other ELOF domains include Approaches to Learning; Social and Emotional Development; Cognition; and Perceptual, Motor, and Physical Development.
Explore key pieces of information about a Planned Language Approach, including its purpose, benefits, and where to start.
Use this resource to check whether materials for children and families are culturally and linguistically appropriate.
Learn about emergent writing and the writing process. Discover ways to support children's emergent writing skills.
Learn how to promote the Planned Language Approach for Oral Language and Vocabulary in your program. Explore the research and the development trajectory for these skills in children ages birth to 5.
Find out how engaging and responsive learning environments help infants and toddlers achieve school readiness.
Learn ways to scaffold Alphabet Knowledge and Early Writing, key elements of early language and literacy. Find research about alphabet knowledge and early writing and how children birth to 5 develop these skills.
When you read with children, they connect the words they hear to the pictures on the page and things in their world. Learn why story time is important for children’s brain development.
Explore this brief to learn how home visitors can support children who are learning more than one language. Find out how a solid foundation in a child’s home language is key to later language success.
Screening and assessment allow staff to understand each child’s strengths and needs. To plan learning experiences that support Big 5 skills development, staff need to use data from screening and assessment results.
Explore resources related to alphabet knowledge and early writing skills in young children, as well as support strategies for parents and families. See how the skills develop through the eyes of kindergartener Joan.