General+Education+Classroom+Involvement

 Teachers who are not trained in the MLPP program can still do things within their classroom to help in all areas of the assessments. Below are just a glimpse of the opportunities or supports used in the classroom, to aid in the milestone assessments, as well as the enabling skills assessments. 
 * ====**Milestone Assessments **====
 * Oral Language
 * Model and discuss words to describe feelings and ideas
 * Converse and read to children regularly
 * Oral Reading
 * Select text at the child's instructional level
 * Monitor reading growth overtime
 * Writing
 * Surround students with print
 * Encourage students to write every day
 * Comprehension
 * Ask children to make connections to their own lives to better understand text
 * Encourage students to make predictions from the title, picture or text.
 * Literacy Attitudes
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Do think alouds, describing how they locate needed information in a book
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Engage children in literature circles
 * ====**<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Enabling Skills **====
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Phonemic Awareness
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Engage students in daily literature and writing activities
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Have students practice segmenting onset and rimes
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Concept of print
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Help students focus on the structure of the text (setting, events, etc.)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Provide opportunities for children to retell text
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Letter and Sound Identification
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Reading and making ABC books with children
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Tracing/writing the letter shapes in a variety of mediums (sand, shaving cream, rice, etc.)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Sight Word and Decodable Word List
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Foster environmental print
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Provide continuous opportunities for children to reread familiar text
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Known Word Activities
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Encourage children to use "phonetic" spelling and compare their writing with conventional spelling
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Encourage children to attend to words in continuous text
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Hearing and Recording Sounds
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Take time to let students read their writing to someone
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Make and break apart words using magnetic letters

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 * **<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">References: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//MLPP:Assessments.// <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">(n.d.) . Retrieved March 27,2009, from []

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