4K Letter Learning Course

Build a stronger foundation for literacy success that helps every young learner thrive. Support your youngest learners with a structured, research-informed approach to letter learning. This advanced self-paced professional learning course is designed for 4K educators, instructional coaches, leaders, and support staff who want to enhance early literacy instruction through explicit letter learning lessons, responsive planning, and purposeful letter learning cycles. Participants will explore high-leverage instructional routines that strengthen letter-sound correspondence, learn how to use screening data to guide instructional decisions, and develop an actionable plan for implementing structured letter learning within their own educational setting. Objectives: Engage in high-leverage routines and strategies that foster strong letter-sound correspondence and accelerate letter learning. Explore letter learning cycles and learn how to embed routines into your plans. Use screening data results to strengthen responsive planning within universal instruction. Create a clear, actionable plan for structured letter learning that is responsive to data. Target Audience: 4K Teachers Early Childhood Educators Instructional Coaches Literacy Coaches School and District Leaders Interventionists Support Staff Format: Self-paced eLearning course with interactive knowledge checks and real-world scenarios. The estimated time to take the course is 6 hours. Participants will receive access to a comprehensive collection of planning tools, instructional routines, lesson resources, and implementation guides designed to support effective and consistent letter learning instruction in 4K settings, including: 4K Letter Learning Thought Tracker - for note-taking, reflection, and action planning throughout the course High-Leverage Instructional Routines: Starting Strong in 4K Toolkit: a $49 value! Letter Learning Routine 4K: A Strategy for Teaching Explicit Alphabet Instruction - a 35-page editable Google Doc for classroom implementation A completion certificate is available after completing the course.