Literacy Environments Workshop - Introduction

Purpose of this workshop

This workshop provides strategies for setting up a classroom or home environment to promote early literacy. Ideas and resources for materials and activities are included.

Workshop Objectives

By the end of this workshop, the participant should be able to:

know the importance of environmental print
develop activities to increase children's awareness of environmental print
design classroom centers with appropriate literacy materials
design a home environment that encourages literacy
adapt materials and activities as needed

Key Terms

You can view the key terms for this workshop as a web page, download them as a PDF (suitable for print), as a printer friendly web page, or email them.

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For Further Discussion

Participants can use the information in this workshop as a resource for:

planning classroom environments
including literacy environments in material planning and budgeting
long range planning and grant funding of classroom facilities
assessing home environments
educating families

ITLC Online -- -- http://www.wiu.edu/itlc/