EDCI 270 Communcation & Collaboration Chal. 3

McKenzie Schilling

EDCI 270 Chal. 3

19 October 2023

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Link to Professional Learning Network 1: About Us - Children's Literacy Initiative (cli.org)

- Relation to Phonemic Awareness: It gives support to teachers who have taught or will teach phonemic awareness. There is a spot for supporting educators and scheduling a workshop. There is another section that talks about transforming literacy instruction. There are in-person, blended, and online workshops available. The goal of these workshops is to collaborate and share ideas about improving instruction to help children become better readers, writers, and thinkers.

- Description of how it helps understand phonemic awareness: There are workshops about how phonemic awareness is taught using concepts of equity, early literacy instruction, creating and managing the literacy environment, intentional read-alouds, family engagement, how to motivate Pre-K students, and classroom cultures. There is also a section about choosing books for elementary classroom libraries and lessons for K-3.

Link to Professional Learning Network 2: Professional Development - Success for All Foundation

- Relation to Phonemic Awareness: There are schoolwide and targeted programs accessible to teachers that teach kids phonemic awareness. The big thing relative to teachers is there is a professional development program that provides training and support for teachers who want to improve their phonics instruction. It helps teachers set attainable goals for their students and create lessons based on those goals. 

- Description of how it helps understand phonemic awareness: It helps teachers stay on track with goal setting through workshops, school visits, phone calls, email, and collaborative online sharing. There are also online resources for in-person and remote learning, tutoring, and teacher/student portals for interactive lessons related to phonemic awareness, letter-sound correspondence, word-level blending, and beginning spelling.

Link to Professional Learning Network 3: Blending and Segmenting — Cultivating Literacy

- Relation to Phonemic Awareness: This website has reading strategies related to blending and segmenting with examples of each and videos to help understanding the difference between blending and segmenting. There are teaching strategies and strategies to help scaffold children's understanding of phonics topics. 

- Description of how it helps understand phonemic awareness: There are teaching and student strategies that can be pulled from this website to use in your own classroom. There are also live book clubs that your students can participate in with your progress monitoring. It is for 5-7 year olds. There are semester classes offered on Thursdays via zoom and there are lesson plans provided to teachers beforehand. There are also individualized programs that provides access to a reading expert, games, books based on student's level, activities, and a flexible schedule. These resources are more for extra help for children at home and to motivate children to learn. 

Link to Professional Learning Network 4: Professional Learning Series: Phonemic Awareness & Phonics - Literacy How

- Relation to Phonemic Awareness: This website has the importance of phonemic awareness related to activities, instruction, decoding, and stages of learning to read. 

- Description of how it helps understand phonemic awareness: There is a webinar video for teachers at the beginning of the website as well as a video library accessible with previous webinar videos. There are literacy coaching opportunities to work with other teachers and learn how to implement, reflect, and improve their instruction.

Link to Professional Learning Network 5: Phonological and Phonemic Awareness: The What, Why, How, and Wow for Every Learner - edWeb

- Relation to Phonemic Awareness: There are webinars related to teaching phonics instruction to diverse multilingual learners. Literacy, phonemic awareness, and phonological awareness are all tied together in most webinars. 

- Description of how it helps understand phonemic awareness: Teachers can meet the presenters online or in-person if they choose and relate to their experiences with teaching phonemic awareness or their personal learning experiences. There are live presentations online free of charge every weekday. The website provides times, dates, and topics that will be discussed. The presenters discuss curriculum tools delivered in the classroom, hybrid, or virtual setting. 

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Process to Locate Sources: 

- My search criteria I typed in to find my sources was, "Professional learning network for phonemic awareness." I looked for sources that had "donate, contact us, coaching, workshops & seminars, books & materials, leadership development, and a description about what the program is all about. I specifically looked for sources that would benefit myself as a teacher and the families of my students. 

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Why professional learning networks would be helpful in one's work as a teacher: 

- Teachers can collaborate with other teachers and literacy experts about how to improve phonics instruction for elementary grades and participate in activities and group sessions in-person or online. 

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