A Bachelor's Degree in elementary education, if the pre-k instructor has been certified to teach children any age from birth through 6th grade, with a Florida Educator's Certificate, regardless whether the certificate is current or not, and has not had this educator certificate suspended or revoked.
Conversational interactions are interactions in which two or more people take turns exchanging information and ideas.
Voluntary Prekindergarten (VPK) Education Program – A free educational program that prepares age-eligible children for success in kindergarten and beyond. To be eligible, children must live in Florida and be 4-years-old on or before September 1 of the program year.
The three components are (a) Word Identification, (b) Listening Comprehension, and (c) Silent Reading Comprehension. Each component consists of specific skills that emergent readers must learn and understand before they can acquire conventional literacy.
There are four stages that kids go through when learning to write: preliterate, emergent, transitional, and fluent.
The base student allocation for 2021-2022 is $2,122 for the VPK Summer program and $2,486 for the VPK School-Year program.
three hours per dayThe State of Florida provides for 540 hours of instruction, three hours per day, which is free to the parent. Parents may choose a 3 hour Half Day VPK Program, either AM or PM, a Hybrid Program where there is space available for full or half day students OR a full day program if their child needs full day care.
What is the curriculum? The VPK focuses on literacy – reading and writing, and social skills, because of the VPK objective of preparing children for full-time kindergarten. The program follows the Department of Education guidelines which emphasizes a focus on early literacy.
1. Interaction conducted in a dialogical way, by exchanging natural language messages.
Phonological and Phonemic Awareness: Activities for Your Pre-K Child. Phonological awareness is a set of critical pre-reading skills: the ability to hear, identify, and play with the sounds in spoken language — including rhymes, syllables, and phonemes.
For example, rather than saying to a child, “Can you please put that over there?,” be specific and say, “Can you please put the book on my desk?” In this way, children will hear the names of objects over and over.
The Think, Show, Tell, Talk strategy provides an easy-to-use format for creating these opportunities within the classroom, and to individualize the vocabulary instruction for the unique context of each child or group of children. It is a simple yet dynamic strategy that encourages vocabulary and language growth.