From Sounds to Print: Integrating Phonological Awareness, Reading, and Writing
This workshop is part of a two-day institute, Foundations for Reading Success: Oral Language to Print. Join us for this individual workshop, join the full institute or mix and match days to build a personalized experience.
This session helps educators translate research into engaging, print-based classroom practices — connecting sounds to print through game-based activities for early reading approaches that support decoding and meaning-making, and developmentally appropriate approaches to building the gross and fine motor skills essential for early writing. Leave with a fully planned, print-based literacy activity that integrates phonological awareness, early reading, and writing, ready for immediate classroom implementation.
Key Learning Objectives:
- strengthen early foundational skills instruction by implementing routines that build sound–spelling knowledge, including letter identification
- apply phonemic awareness skills to print-based activities that support early reading development
- learn and implement early reading strategies that support decoding and meaning-making
- develop and practice instructional approaches that support early writing skills
- design integrated literacy activities that connect reading, writing, and play, including planning a print-based lesson that incorporates phonological awareness, early reading, and writing
Presenters: Kinjal Nicholls, MA; Dana Carr-Ford, MA, MsEd
Grades: PreK-2
Location: Hybrid
Credits: CTLE credits – 6 hours per full-day workshop, 3 hours per morning session
Participate in-person (9 a.m.–3 p.m. ET) on our Westchester Lower School campus or virtually (9 a.m.–12 p.m. ET) Flexible options designed to fit your schedule.
