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QUESTION 1
In your discussion post this week, reflect on the following:
As ECE professionals, explain how we can help children of diverse backgrounds to successfully achieve curricular goals in language and literacy.
In your answer, be sure to:
Consider and discuss students who are non-native English speakers, students of cultural backgrounds that differ from the majority in the class, and students with disabilities.
Provide and describe specific examples of teaching methods, strategies, or activities you might employ to help these students reach curricular goals.
Justify how ECE professionals can use the language and literacy curriculum to help children respect and value diversity.
In your answer, be sure to:
Consider and discuss how you would use the language and literacy curriculum to help all students develop a respect and appreciation for languages other than English, various cultures, and people with disabilities.
Provide and describe specific examples of teaching methods, strategies, or activities you might employ to help students develop an appreciation of diversity.
QUESTION 2
Directions
As you learned in the lecture, one of the components of an effective language and literacy curriculum is intentional selection of high quality texts for instruction. For your reflection this week, imagine you are a teacher in an ECE center. Your director has asked you to help select some new texts to add to the classroom libraries in the building.
Select two age groups from the following list: infant, toddler, preschool, early school age.
Then, using the guidelines provided in this week's lecture on selecting high quality texts, find one text that would be appropriate for each of the two age groups you chose. This means you should choose two books total, one for each age group.
For both selected books, write a paragraph in which you:
Identify the title and author of the book, as well as the format or genre of the book (i.e. alphabet book, big book, fairytale, etc.).
Refer to this week's lecture for a list of more book genres and formats.
Please provide a weblink to the selected book so your instructor can better understand what you are writing about.
Reflect upon why the book is appropriate for the age group chosen and explain how it meets the guidelines for selecting high quality text.
Be sure to provide specific examples.
Detail how you would utilize the text in instruction to focus on one of the six main literacy skills examined in this week's lecture (phonemic/phonological awareness, print concepts, vocabulary, comprehension, fluency or writing).