User's Guide to the Early Language & Literacy Classroom Observation - Softcover

Smith, Miriam W.; Dickinson, David K.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1557665729 ISBN 13: 9781557665720

Publisher: Brookes Pub, 2002

Synopsis

SAVE when you order the ELLCO Pre-K User's Guide and ELLCO Pre-K Tool together!

Trusted by schools across the country, ELLCO helps build better literacy programs by assessing the quality of both the classroom environment and teachers' practices. WithELLCO, educators reliably gather the essential data needed for professional development and program improvement that lead to better literacy outcomes for young children. These two NEW editions ofELLCO are even better because they're

• Age-specific. Assessment is effective and accurate with the new ELLCO editions, designed especially for preschool and early elementary environments.ELLCO Pre-K prompts users to look for preliteracy activities like storybook reading, circle time conversations, and child-originated storywriting, whileELLCO K–3 has been reworked to reflect the evolving literacy skills of K–3 students.
• Streamlined. Each new edition of ELLCO has just two parts: a classroom observation to gather critical information about 5 key elements of the literacy environment, and a teacher interview, which supplements the observation with educators' firsthand reflections.
• Easier to administer. Users will get complete information about conducting classroom observations, scoring accurately, and limiting bias. They'll also get helpful descriptors for all 5 levels of the rating scale.
• Informed by user feedback. The new editions of ELLCO were created using feedback from the education professionals who know the tool best.

With these new editions of the assessment tool thousands trust, preschools and elementary schools will have the information they need to determine the effectiveness of their classroom environments, strengthen the quality of their programs and teaching practices, and improve young children's early literacy outcomes.

Measure 5 key literacy elements:

• classroom structure
• curriculum
• the language environment
• books and book reading opportunities
• print and early writing supports

Order with the ELLCO Pre-K Tool and save $10! Use code S1050 when placing your order.

The User's Guide is part of ELLCO, the bestselling classroom observation tool that helps schools assess the quality of literacy practices and supports and give children the best possible start in language and literacy development. Trusted by schools across the country, ELLCO helps educators reliably gather the data needed for professional development and program improvement, leading to better literacy outcomes for young children.

Learn more about ELLCO Pre-K and ELLCO K–3.

About this title

About the Author

Christopher E. Smith, M.A., is a research project coordinator at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He has conducted numerous staff trainings and workshops as a consultant to schools and agencies across the U.S. He is presently working on research that explores the relationships between biological setting events and problem behavior.

Louisa Anastasopoulos, M.P.P., has extensive experience conducting classroom observations, child assessments, and interviews with teachers and parents. Her work has dealt with examinations of classroom quality as well as with early language and literacy. She has been instrumental in the design of teacher and parent interview protocols and has spent a great deal of time interacting with preschool teachers and staff. Her bilingual expertise has contributed to her ability to work with a wide variety of teachers and parents. Ms. Anastasopoulos holds a master of public policy, with a focus on education policy, from the Georgetown Public Policy Institute.

Review

The perfect tool . . . for those of us who seek to close the opportunity-to-learn gap during the early learning years. --Maurice Sykes, Executive Director, Early Childhood Leadership Institute

An organizing and validating instrument that helps classrooms to transform into zones of inquiry and conscious communication. --Cynthia P Gehrie, Ph.D., Ethnographer, Consultant for Documentation and Professional Development, Early Reading First grant, Northeastern Illinois University

This exemplary resource is a must have . . . I use it all the time and find the data it provides to be valid and reliable indices of the early childhood classroom environment. --Laura Justice, Ph.D., Professor, College of Education and Human Ecology, The Ohio State University

Edition details

• Publisher: Brookes Pub
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1557665729
• ISBN 13: 9781557665720
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 64