Investment: $299 | Course content will be released on July 1

Oral language development and print concepts are two key areas of emergent literacy - what happens when we help develop them simultaneously? In this course we will discuss ways to utilize children’s play as an authentic and meaningful way to expand vocabulary and make connections to print. We will discuss the importance of creating playful engagements that include opportunities for dialogue and reflection. Through their play students are making sense of the world around them - it is our job to enhance and facilitate the language they use to identify and describe it. 

Specifically in this course we will discuss ways to:

  • Understand the science behind language development in the early years

  • Create language rich engagements 

  • Connect the language we discover to print



Course curriculum

    1. Course Information

    1. Padlet

    1. Introduction

    2. Journal Prompts

    1. Language Comprehension

    2. Journal Prompts

    1. Speaking and Listening

    2. Journal Prompts

    1. Print Concepts

    2. Journal Prompts

About this course

  • $299.00
  • 18 lessons
  • 1.5 hours of video content

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Course Facilitators

Meredith Spragg

Meredith is an experienced international early years educator and coordinator. She has a passion for creating literacy rich learning environments that encourage and prioritize play and inquiry. She is committed to working alongside educators to cultivate class communities that foster student agency and provide meaningful and authentic learning experiences. Meredith believes that careful observation and documentation of each student's individual and collaborative learning journey is essential to building intentional and impactful literacy engagements. She constantly seeks progressive, research-based practice to best support children's emotional and cognitive development and is a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University studying the learning sciences and their application in educational contexts. Meredith is currently serving as the Early Years Coordinator at MYIS International School in Bangkok where she works closely with students, teachers and families to empower a community of life-long learners.