Readings, Questions and Presentations

Well group 4, this is our week to present our findings within the readings for week 5 of our Literacy discussion. Amanda and I will be splitting the Tompkins reading; Matt and Kevin, you will be splitting the Gibbons chapter. If you could all just create a brief power point and email is to Trisha so that she may compile everything by Wednesday afternoon everything should be ready to role by Thursday morning!

The guiding questions for the readings that may help when looking for the highlight-able portions are as follows and stem from the guiding title "Emergent Literacy: NCLB, Phonemic awareness, phonics & spelling":
1) How does the No Child Left Behind Act influence language arts curriculum and teaching?
2) What teaching approaches help children develop phonemic awareness, phonics and spelling?
3) What new literacies are students likely to bring to the classroom?
4) How can book clubs support language learning?

Good luck with these coming weeks of ample reading, discussion and presentations!