Assignment

Selecting Texts for Emergent and Beginning Literacy Learners Paper

To Prepare: For this Assignment, you will examine narrative, informational, and digital texts on a single topic for your literacy learner. Then. You also will examine your decision-making process in selecting these types of texts.

· Depending on the data you collected, these texts might be, used differently with your emergent and beginning literacy learners.

· Consider how you can use these texts to facilitate research-based reading and writing instruction

Assignment Direction: Choose 3 Reading texts for your students in grade 1 level. (Narrative, informational and digital texts)

Write 2-page: In your paper describes at least three reading texts you selected for both your emergent and beginning literacy learners in grade 1 level. (Florida Common Core Standards-Reading) Using APA style and reference

Include the following in your description below (highlight) when choosing the three reading texts for grade 1 level.

· The topic or unit of study

· Title and author of each text

· Include the URL, or website address, for the digital text

Then: answer the following questions to support the three texts you choose for your students in grade 1 level.

1. Explain how each text relates to the cognitive and non-cognitive aspects of your emergent and beginning literacy learner.

2. Explain how these texts can help you support your emergent and beginning literacy learners with regard to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and/or other standards.

3. Identify and explain where each text falls on the continua from linguistic to semiotic and narrative to informational within the appropriate level of difficulty described in the Analyzing and Selecting Text media program.

4. Explain the specific difficulties related to the texts and the factors that impact, the complexity of each text.

5. Explain how you might use one or more texts in this grouping to facilitate student writing.

Helpful reference below:

Common Core State Standards Initiative. (2012a). Common Core State Standards for English language arts & literacy in history/social studies, science, and technical subjects: Appendix A: Research supporting key elements of the standards and glossary of key terms. Retrieved from http://www.corestandards.org/assets/Appendix_A.pdf

Neuman, S. B., & Roskos, K. (2012). Helping children become more knowledgeable through text. Reading Teacher, 66(3), 207–210

Ciampa, K. (2012). Reading in the digital age: Using electronic books as a teaching tool for beginning readers. Retrieved from http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ981797.pdf

Correia, M. P. (2011). Fiction vs. informational texts: Which will kindergarteners choose? Retrieved from http://www.naeyc.org/yc/files/yc/file/201111/Correia_Fiction_vs_Informational_Texts_Online%20

As educators, knowing about the 21st-century skills is important and being able to recognize the skills within specific examples is an indicator that you truly understand them and how they work in application. In Week One, we discussed the story of Caine and his arcade as a way to explore how culture influences creativity, imagination, and inventiveness. In this discussion, we go a step further by considering 21st-century skills in relation to another inspiring story of creativity, imagination, and inventiveness.

The Landfill Harmonic project showcases the story of a garbage picker, a music teacher, and a group of children from a Paraguayan slum that, out of necessity, started creating instruments entirely out of garbage found in a landfill.

Your reflections on this story will provide a rich backdrop for learning more about the impact that social and cross-cultural skills have on the more academic pursuit of keeping children engaged in learning 21st-century skills. After reviewing this week’s Instructor Guidance material, you will have a good working knowledge of social and cross-cultural skills and will be able to recognize how they might support the learning of 21st-century skills, especially within the Landfill Harmonic project.

Initial Post: View the Landfill Harmonic Amazing and Inspirational (link is below)video about the Landfill Harmonic project, and then view more specific information about the project on the Landfill Harmonic (link is below)website. Next, review the Framework for 21st Century Learning (link is below)web page. Then, create an initial post that addresses the following in at least one paragraph for each:

• Describe the Learning and Innovation 4Cs (i.e., communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity) (click on the 4Cs Research Series tab on the right-hand side of the page) as well as Life and Career Skills from the Framework for 21st Century Learning (see item 4 under 21st Century Student Outcomes) that you perceive the students learned and applied as a result of their participation in the Landfill Harmonic project.
• Describe the cultural competencies you perceive were demonstrated by the students in the Landfill Harmonic project (these are summarized in the Instructor Guidance for this week).
• Describe the social factors and attitudes you perceive were needed to initiate the project, including a consideration of the cross-cultural skills that may be necessary for supporters to sustain the Landfill Harmonic project.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJxxdQox7n0&feature=youtu.be

http://www.p21.org/our-work/p21-framework