What is Pre-K ELLA?
Pre-K Early Literacy Learning in Arkansas (Pre-K ELLA) is a professional development opportunity focusing on the behaviors, skills, and concepts that are part of emerging literacy in preschool children. As Pre-K ELLA participants, early childhood professionals will participate in 30 hours of training consisting of discussion and hands-on activities relating to emerging literacy.
The topics covered include: an overview of Pre-K ELLA, Social and Emotional Development, Learning Environments, Language Development, Phonological Awareness, The Role of Play, Dramatic Play, Read-Alouds, Poetry, Nursery Rhymes and Fingerplays, Storytelling, Shared Reading, Writing, Environmental Print, Learning about Letters, Sounds and Words, Observation and Assessment, and Family Literacy.
Pre-K ELLA participants receive a variety of materials, including an early language and literacy text book and a collection of handouts and resource pages. Early childhood programs with staff participating in Pre-K ELLA will also receive other teacher resource books relating to language and literacy and a collection of quality children’s books.
Pre-K ELLA is offered throughout Arkansas in a variety of geographic locations. ASU Childhood Services is pleased to be a training site for the Pre-K ELLA in the Northcentral, Northeast, and Mid-Delta regions of the state. If you are an early childhood professional in one of the areas, please visit the ASU Childhood Services Training Opportunities website to find out the dates and locations of a Pre-K ELLA training near you.
Click here to find Pre-K ELLA trainings scheduled near you.
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