An Early Education Program

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• An Early Education Program

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• Webbing into Literacy (WIL) is a downloadable
  program designed to provide rural Head Start
  teachers with materials and instruction that will
  launch America's young children on successful
  academic careers. WIL has begun as a component in
  a best practices study conducted by Dr. Laura B.
  Smolkin, Principal Investigator in CIERA, the
  national Center for the Improvement of Early
  Reading Achievement.

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• Presented at the 1999 Core Knowledge Conference
  as part of the Core Knowledge sequence

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Webbing Into Literacy

• WIL,
• stressing a developmentally appropriate,
  balanced approach to literacy instruction,
  provides teachers with guidance and suggestions
  for literacy development both in the classroom
  and at home.

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Guiding Principles

• Web refers to the World Wide Web without which it
  would be impossible to reach or offer the program
  to so many.

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• Web calls to mind Miss Muffett and her spider,
  reinforcing the important role that nursery
  rhymes play in the WIL program.

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Most importantly

• Those at WIL are committed to weaving a Web
• There are many fine threads which when woven
  together provide the support children need to
  succeed

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WIL Instruction
A Rhyme-A-Week
A Book-A-Week
Take-Home Materials
Alphabet Books
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A Rhyme-A-Week

• Phonological awareness program featuring 30
  different rhymes.
• Phonograms or rimes first identified by Richard
  Wylie and Donald Durrell in 1970

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A Rhyme-A-Week

• Wylie and Durrell identified 37 rimes that
  accounted for almost 500 words of Murphy's list
• To determine the order of rhymes and rimes to
  present each week, Wil creators followed Fry's
  (1998) suggested consideration of frequency.

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A Book-A-Week

• A-Book-A-Week instruction makes use of the 101
  Best Books
• Cover four books per month

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A Book-A-Week

• Language Development, with attention to
  vocabulary and syntactic structures. (WIL's
  A-Rhyme-A-Week deepens this particular emphasis)

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A Book-A-Week

• Acts of Writing, including letter-sound
  relationships, print concepts, and genre knowledge

• Lots of Links, including intertextual
  connections, connections to other content areas,
  and connections to children's lives

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A Book-A-Week

• Artist's Craft,
• with attention to the ways authors and
  illustrators have created their works

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Take Home Materials

• My Very Own Nursery Rhyme Collection
• My Reading Log
• Builds commitment with families

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Alphabet Books

• New classroom alphabet each month
• They are sent home for families to read together
  at months end

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Benefits for Instructions
Easily Accessible Complete Lesson Plans Colorful Graphics
Multi-faceted Multi-Age Developmentally Appropriate
Balanced Learning Transitioning Home-School Connection
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Resource

• Smolkin, L.B. (2000). (Homepage of Webbing Into
  Literacy). (Online). Available
  http//curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/wil/home.htm
  l (2000, June 3)

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