The goal of the five-hour Emergent Literacy Course for VPK Instructors is to provide participants with background information on emergent literacy and demonstrate instructional practices that can be used in VPK classrooms.

This self-paced program is available as an online course. It is comprised of

• interactive learning activities
• video demonstrations of lessons by Florida VPK instructors
• techniques for implementing research-based instructional practices
• competency based assessments.

The five components in the Emergent Literacy for VPK Instructors course are as follows:

• Emergent Literacy
• Language
• Emergent Reading
• Emergent Writing
• Environment

This training is designed to follow the initial training on the new VPK Standards.