Parent Guide for their Role in helping children get ready to read

Hello class!

Early literacy is what children know about reading and writing before they can actually read and write. 

Research shows that children get ready to read years before they start school and parents are extremely crucial in order to help their two- and three-year-olds learn important skills at that age so they can become good readers.

Early Literacy Begins With You

Please read this article for parents to actively participate in their children's early reading skills preparation and answer the following:

1. Please write a 50-word paragraph about your childhood experience with reading skill preparation. Did your parents do any of the guidelines in this article? If they did, how did this help you? If they did not, how did this affect you?
2. Think about your children if you have them or imagine you have them if you don't. Which are 7 things you are very certain you will do for them? Which are 3 things you are very certain you will not do for them?
3. How would our Honduran society be different if all parents knew and did these things for their children? Please write a 100-word paragraph about it.

Please make sure that you answer every aspect in all the questions and you have a good grammar and spelling in order to get all the points.

Remember that results and opinions can not exactly be the same.

Deadline: Sunday, March 24th, at 11:59pm.

Cooperative Structures - Spencer Kagan

Hello Class!

Spencer Kagan is a famous author who is well recognized for his research on establishing harmonious classrooms, promoting responsible behavior, improving students' social skills, character qualities, and academic achievement through cooperative learning structures.

Please watch the video below and answer the following questions in your own words:

1. Why is traditional learning not effective anymore to teach our students nowadays?
2. What are the two greatest benefits of Kagan's Cooperative learning?

Remember that opinions can not be exactly the same.

Deadline: Sunday, March 24th, at 11:59pm.

Review for Test #1

Hello class!

Please choose one or two of the following concepts we have learned in class from Chapter 1, 2 and 3 and define or explain them in your own words:

1. The characteristics of how children learn at home
2. The characteristics of how children learn at school
3. The shock children have when they begin school and experience those differences
4. The functions of schools
5. Facts about language
6. Clusters of concepts that young children should become familiar with, over time
7. Emergent literacy
8. Structures and activities
9. Competitive and cooperative structures in learning
10. Describe one of the Cooperative Structures learned in class. (objectives, procedure, and variations)
11. Total Physical Response and oral activities

Your post must be at least 250-words.

Your objective in this entry is to have a final review before the test on Wednesday, so please be truthful and responsible about your answers, because your classmates will be reading them and if they are not correct then you would be misleading them to fail in the test.

Remember that opinions can not be exactly the same.

Deadline: Tuesday, March 12th, at 11:59pm.

Multiple Intelligence Test

Dear Students,

Please go to the following website and take a test to see which type of intelligence might be stronger in you:

https://www.literacynet.org/mi/assessment/findyourstrengths.html

When you have your results, write your three strongest intelligence types and the two weakest ones in this entry as a comment. 

Then write your personal opinion on how accurate you think the results are, by providing evidence from your daily life.

The first comment is going to be my own example, for you to know exactly how to write your own.

Remember that results and opinions cannot be exactly the same.

Deadline: Tuesday, Feb. 26th, at 11:59pm.

Learning Centers

Hello class!

Every preschool classroom should have access to all the learning center for students to develop many key areas regarding their cognitive and motor skills. Nevertheless, there are certain limitations when it comes to space or resources in most of the schools.

Your objective in this entry is to think about your own classroom. There is not enough space for you to set all the seven learning centers. Meaning you must choose only four of them that you consider to be the most relevant for children development.

Which are the four learning centers you would choose to have in your class? 

1. Music Center
2. Art Center
3. Block Center
4. Writing Center
5. Science Center
6. Drama and Play Center 
7. Toy Table Center

Every learning center that you choose to have in your classroom must be explained in four or five reasons for your decision to have it in your classroom.

Remember that opinions can not be exactly the same and your participation must be complete in order to get the points.

Deadline: Sunday, Feb. 17th, at 11:59pm.

Language and Emergent Literacy

Welcome to Early Literacy!

We are going to learn everything we need to know about young learners, the development of their skills, a preschool classroom environment, multiple intelligences, methodology, and all the important things you need to know in order to become a successful English teacher for the little ones.

To start with this blog, please Read Chapter 1 (pgs. 2-8), and then:

1. Mention three facts about language, explain each one of them in your own words, and provide two examples on how each one of them applies to English.
2. Mention at least five ways in which parents and family members can start developing "Emergent Literacy" at home.
3. Mention at least five ways in which preschool teachers can continue developing "Emergent Literacy" once students arrive to their classroom.

Remember that opinions can not be exactly the same and you must answer all the questions completely, in order to get all the points.

Deadline: Monday, February 11th, at 11:59pm.