Reference no: EM133696865
Languages of Children
LEARNING ACTIVITIES
Part 1: EAL Research & Reflection
Class language census What languages are spoken by the students in your class?
Thinking about language diversity Reflect on or have a conversation in your class about language diversity.
• How many languages are spoken in your country?
• How many languages do you speak?
• Why have you learnt each of these languages?
• When do you speak them? Who to?
• Can you remember a time when you could not speak the language? How did it make you feel? What strategies did you use to communicate?
Focus Questions
1. What is important to know about learning a new language?
2. How can we help children settle in and participate in our educational program when they don't understand or speak English yet?
LEARNING ACTIVITIES
Part 2:
YOUR TASK
» Research a dance form or story from a culture different from your own. This could be a traditional dance, folklore, or a contemporary dance piece that tells a story.
Choose one role from the provided reading.
» Roles may include aspects like language modeling, creating language-rich environments, or fostering language through play.
» Using a preferred online tool (e.g., Google Slides or a presentation software), create slides summarizing the chosen role and insights.
Include visuals, examples, and key takeaways
Consider incorporating real-world examples and practical applications.
Upload the presentation slides and the oral report script to the designated platform or forum.
Watch and review presentations from other students at your own pace.
Reflect on the overall insights gained from the different roles discussed.
Discuss the importance of the environment and the role of the teacher. Use the following prompts to guide your discussion and take notes for your journal:
Focus questions
Discuss the importance of the environment and the role of the teacher. Use the following prompts to guide your discussion and take notes for your journal:
What role does an ECT play in supporting children's language, emergent literacy and multiliteracy learning? What role does an ECT play in supporting children's communication skills?
What role does the environment play in supporting children's communication skills?
What role does the environment play in supporting children's language, emergent literacy and multiliteracy learning?
What role does an ECT play in communicating children's language, emergent literacy and multiliteracy learning to families?
LEARNING ACTIVITIES
Part 3:
SHARE: PICTURE BOOK
1. Choose a book for the way it uses language. Explain what it is about the language that made you choose it.
2. Choose a book for the quality of its artwork.
o What makes it effective?
o How does the art communicate?
3. Choose another book. Cover the words, and 'read' the story aloud from the pictures alone.
4. Share your book and answers here in discussion forum.
CREATE: RECREATING STORIES WITH PUPPETRY
Watch some of the video to get some ideas and using the picture book you have chosen. Recreate an aspect of the story using puppetry with materials.
Perform it and take a video of yourself and share it to the Padlet below.
CREATE:DESIGN YOUR OWN PICTURE BOOK
YOUR TASK
Using an array of self-selected materials, design and create your own picture book based on a detailed miniature re-creation of an everyday setting/experience.
This activity is connected to your Assessment 3.
Design one learning experience that supports children's language and multi-literacy learning using a play-based approach. The two learning experiences need to be connected.
YOUR TASK
Identify age group you are planning for (infant, toddler or pre¬school)
Plan two learning experiences that support children's language and multi-literacy learning through play
The learning experience/s can be an activity, a play experience, or setting up a particular area of the room...anything!
Briefly list out the steps involved in this learning experience eg: consider the objectives - what are the teaching intentions related to language and multi-literacy learning?
how would you carry out this experience?
what teaching strategies would you use? V how would the environment be set up?
what is the teacher's role?
Think about how your leaming experiences connect to specific descriptors of Outcome 5 (EYLF). Why?