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Training Starters

Training Starters help you plan trainings on key topics related to the subject matter. Click the different training starters for tips on creating trainings that address your program needs and next steps.

BDA Lesson Planning

Understand the "Before, During, and After" reading process, and learn how to implement it in your program. Includes a sample lesson plan based on Otis and a customizable template to create one based on a reading of your own choosing.

Incorporating Writing Into Your Program

Learn and understand various tools to guide writing, and plan how to incorporate writing projects into your program.

Literacy Activity Centers

Identify the purpose and benefits of literacy activity centers, plan how to use them, and be prepared for potential challenges.

My Notebook

Literacy

The Notebook is a useful way to jot down notes as you go through the various topics available on the You For Youth website. If you'd like to use the notebook, please sign in if you already have an account or register now to join the Y4Y community!

Glossary

Literacy

The same elements of literacy pertaining to school-age students, but demanding focused effort in 21st CCLC programs to ensure support and success of students.
Forming connections between the text and the information and experiences of the reader.
Understanding what one is reading, the ultimate goal of all reading activity. It is a complex process of simultaneously extracting and constructing meaning while reading text.
The act of deciphering a new word by sounding it out.
These activities provide opportunities to practice literacy skills or concepts in the context of another academic activity, academic enrichment activity or routine. Embedded instruction may be easier to deliver to groups of students who have mixed abilities.
These activities focus primarily on direct teaching of concepts and skills. While it doesn’t mean teaching isolated facts and procedures, it does mean that literacy is the main area of academic focus.
The act of understanding spoken language.
Skills in the areas of reading, writing, speaking and listening all students must demonstrate to successfully pursue the college and career path of their choice.
The process of simultaneously extracting and constructing meaning through interaction and involvement with written language.
The act of communicating through producing oral-aural language.
Vocabulary is the knowledge of words and word meanings in both oral and print language and in both expressive (speaking and writing) and receptive (listening and reading) forms.
The process of recording language graphically by hand or other means, as by letters, logograms, and other symbols.