Thursday, November 09, 2006
Get Ready To Read...
Today I would like to share an interesting website called Get Ready To Read. Get Ready to Read! (GRTR!) is a national initiative to build the early literacy skills of preschool-age children. The initiative provides an easy-to-administer, research-based screening tool to early childhood educators, child care providers, and parents in order to help them prepare all children to learn to read and write.
GRTR!'s program vision is that all preschool children will have the skills they need to learn to read when they enter school. This Web site is a part of the National Center for Learning Disabilities, known as NCLD, is a national non-profit organization committed to increasing opportunities for all individuals with learning disabilities so that they can achieve their full potential. NCLD has a particular interest in early literacy skills because of their importance to reading and school success. In developing Get Ready to Read!, NCLD’s goal is to incorporate early literacy screening and instructional activities into early childhood education, child care, and family support programs nationwide. Its vision is that all children are screened for early literacy skills and potential reading difficulties in the preschool years as routinely as they are screened for hearing and vision problems.
This Web site is a part of NCLD's initiative to provide parents, educators, health-care professional and advocated with information to help build early literacy skills by integrating emergent literacy screening and learning activities into routine early childhood education, child-care and parenting practices.
There is lots and lots of information at this site including:
Today I would like to share an interesting website called Get Ready To Read. Get Ready to Read! (GRTR!) is a national initiative to build the early literacy skills of preschool-age children. The initiative provides an easy-to-administer, research-based screening tool to early childhood educators, child care providers, and parents in order to help them prepare all children to learn to read and write.
GRTR!'s program vision is that all preschool children will have the skills they need to learn to read when they enter school. This Web site is a part of the National Center for Learning Disabilities, known as NCLD, is a national non-profit organization committed to increasing opportunities for all individuals with learning disabilities so that they can achieve their full potential. NCLD has a particular interest in early literacy skills because of their importance to reading and school success. In developing Get Ready to Read!, NCLD’s goal is to incorporate early literacy screening and instructional activities into early childhood education, child care, and family support programs nationwide. Its vision is that all children are screened for early literacy skills and potential reading difficulties in the preschool years as routinely as they are screened for hearing and vision problems.
This Web site is a part of NCLD's initiative to provide parents, educators, health-care professional and advocated with information to help build early literacy skills by integrating emergent literacy screening and learning activities into routine early childhood education, child-care and parenting practices.
There is lots and lots of information at this site including:
- Transitioning to Kindergarten: A Toolkit for Early Childhood Educators: This Toolkit is a new, easy-to-use resource to help educators and child care providers prepare their children for kindergarten. Download it free here.
- New Downloadable Resources for the Get Ready to Read! Skill-building Activities: We have added pages of downloadable word lists and pictures to ensure that you have all the tools you need to use the activity cards in the classroom and at home.
- Get Ready to Read! Online Training Center: If you are conducting a Get Ready to Read! training workshop, you will find the resources that you need here.
- Updated Regional Resources: In the GRTR! Across America section, you’ll find useful Internet and print resources on early literacy and early childhood education.
- A literacy screening tool for children. This tool is designed to screen a child twice during the year before kindergarten. Use the tool first in the fall one year before the child enters kindergarten, and again the next fall before kindergarten begins, to measure the child's progress.
- Online games and activities for children.
- And much, much more...
This is a site that you really need to check out for yourself and spend some time browsing. There is a great deal of information and useful tools provided for free....
// posted by Tammy Wachter @ 4:00 PM 
