Effective professional learning communities often structure their training around these four key pillars:

The oral language and emergent literacy skills of preschoolers - PMC

: Training in strategies like rhyming games and syllable clapping to help children recognize and work with sounds in spoken language.

: Improving educator-child verbal interactions, including the use of open-ended questions and interactive storytelling to build narrative skills. Evidence-Based Instructional Strategies

PD programs should equip teachers with practical tools to implement daily:

: Learning how to help children understand the function and characteristics of written language, such as recognizing letters and understanding that print carries meaning.