1. Review your peers’ posts, offering a reflection of the bag from the perspective of a family member who used it with their child. Describe what the strengths are about their bag for addressing the concept of literacy development. Is there anything you would do differently? Constructively provide that feedback for your peer as well. For example, you might say, “The questions were well written and help extend the content in the story,” or, “The story was engaging, however it was rather difficult and long to read. I might recommend a story that fits the developmental level more appropriately.”
1. Additionally, suggest one way that the peer can supplement their bag by including an activity for a non-English speaking child and family. As with prior discussions, though two replies is the basic expectation, for deeper engagement and learning you are encouraged to provide responses to any comments or questions others have given to you. This will further the conversation and provide you with opportunities to demonstrate your content expertise, critical thinking, and real-world experiences with the topic of literacy.
PEERS POST:
Theme: “Back to School”
Summer is almost gone, and school is here. This Literacy Bag have all the supplies you need to get started to a great and exciting school year.
Inside your bag contain the following supplies:
· Large and small pencils
· Crayons
· Paper
· Stuff Animals
· Leaves
· Plastic Variety Foods
· Three back to schoolbooks
· Index cards
· Scissors
· Wipes
· Tissues
An explanation of the developmental level/age that you would use the activities with:
Five-Year Old
Three developmentally appropriate literature selections that could be read to the child, including the title and author:
Maisy Goes to Preschool -(author) Lucy Cousins
Very Hungry Caterpillar- (author) Eric Carle
I Love School- (author) Philemon Stunges
Three open-ended questions that the child could discuss after reading the stores?
1.Why do I have to go to school?
1. What do they do at school?
3.Will I have friends at school?
Three activities which reflect reading/writing for the developmentally level:
Activity one:
After reading the story “I Love School”, draw a picture of the things you would like to do at school. Write three new words you learned in the story.
Activity two:
After reading the story, “Maisy Goes to Preschool”, write three sentences about what Maisy did at her school.
Activity three:
Draw a picture of the hungry caterpillar and all the things he ate. Write the name of each item and read the story again.
Three language activities that could be done with the child:
Activity one:
Create a board game for the Hungry Caterpillar story by counting the leaves and draw the pictures of the leaves and the caterpillar. Describe and discuss the pictures.
Activity two:
Repetition Game, have the child repeat after you the new vocabulary words in the story and discuss the meaning of each word.
Three manipulatives or additional items that could be added to the bags and why are they important:
1. Real Leaves
2. Fake housekeeping food used in the story
3. Stuff animal or puppet-caterpillar
Using these items in the story can be real hands-on learning. It is very important to encourage a child to learn how to rhyme, sound identification and using props for storytelling.
-Regina