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Trainings To Go

Trainings to Go are 75 minute long training plans that include a PowerPoint, handouts, and training guides. Click the trainings to get tips on how to customize professional development plans to fit different staff needs, training time frames, and training goals.

Four Components of Literacy

  • Understand the four components of literact: reading, writing, speaking, listening.
  • Examine strategies for implementing activities within the four components.

Embedding Literacy In Enrichment Activities

  • Review strategies for incorporating literacy across the curriculum.
  • Explore activities that effectively implement literacy concepts.

Engaging Families in Literacy Activities

  • Explore the importance of family engagement and its effect on student literacy.
  • Review strategies for engaging families in literacy events. 
  • Participate in sample literacy activities.

The Writing Process

Understand the types of writing students need to know and be able to produce and activities that will make writing more engaging and accessible to students. Train staff with easy-to-implement strategies for incorporating writing into programming.

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.