Unit 4: Community for K - 1st Grade
- Cost
- 100% Free
- Time to complete
- 1.75 Attendance Hours
How it Works
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Learn at Your Own Pace
You don’t have to finish the course all in one sitting. In fact, we recommend you take this course a little bit at a time, incorporating what you’ve learned in the classroom.
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Free Guided Resources
As you go through a course, we’ll introduce you to free resources that will help you implement what you’re learning.
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Never Learn Alone
Have a question on what you’re learning in the course or how to use a resource? Reach out to the Cox Campus community for advice or to lend a helping hand to others.
Lessons
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Lesson 1
Pop-Up: Community K - 1st Day 1
Duration 23 minutesLet's read "In My Granny’s Garden" and then meet authors Pearl Cleage and Zaron W. Burnett Jr. from the Alliance Theatre. -
Lesson 2
Pop-Up: Community K - 1st Day 2
Duration 30 minutesLet’s learn how to give and receive compliments, play vocabulary games and go back to the farm with Ms. Cheryl to learn how to break down words and read them. -
Lesson 3
Pop-Up: Community K - 1st Day 3
Duration 20 minutesHear about what it’s like to work on a farm when you’re still a kid by listening to a real oral history, then learn how to share oral histories with your family members. -
Lesson 4
Pop-Up: Community K - 1st Day 4
Duration 27 minutesIt’s our last day to read "In My Granny’s Garden" and travel to the farm with Ms. Cheryl. -
Lesson 5
Pop-Up: Community K - 1st Day 5
Duration 5 minutesShare your story or a story from your family on our Cox Campus community board.
FAQs
The Cox Campus is the digital outreach platform for the Rollins Center for Language & Literacy. Our team is composed of experienced teachers, early learning and language experts, neuroscientists, school leaders, speech language pathologists and authorities in adult learning and curriculum design to give all children access to the Science of Reading to change the odds for all children.
When you sign up for the Cox Campus, you'll get access to interactive, video-based courses, hundreds of free printable resources, virtual workshops and webinars from early childhood development experts, and a community of child-pacing professionals and families.
The Cox Campus is for all child-facing adults to work to improve child outcomes and positively impact learning. We have courses and content designed for educators, school district leaders, medical professionals, childcare providers, families, and more.
Everything on the Cox Campus is available at no cost – ever. Thanks to generous partner investments and grant funding, the Cox Campus creates online courses and resources for child-facing adults so literacy is a reality for every child.
All the resources and courses on Cox Campus are created based on the latest research and science in early childhood development. Childhood development experts at the Rollins Center for Language and Literacy at the Atlanta Speech School create all of the content based on strategies they implement in real classrooms.
New courses, resources, and teaching guides are released frequently. All of the content on Cox Campus is designed to help teachers, families, and community leaders with challenges they may be facing right now.
The Rollins Center, of the Atlanta Speech School, in some cases, may allow an instructor, facilitator, content editor or a subject matter expert or consultant with proprietary interests to conduct professional development activities at Rollins events, provided that appropriate disclosure of such interest is made. Disclosure of proprietary interest will be made on course material and at the beginning of the course/learning event, when applicable.
