Home and school at work

Read the information about the activities that parents can do at home to enhance emergent literacy in your reader (Peregoy and Boyle 2008) and explain how home environments, including those in which a language other than English is spoken, can nurture literacy development. 

Becoming aware of print

Take some time to watch the following video about print awareness. It will surely help you to talk to your parents and ask them to apply some basic execrcises with their children, regardless of the language of choice. Enjoy!

Assessing oral language development

Imagine that you are planning to assess your students using SOLOM ( Student Oral Language Observation Matrix), how would you structure observations, rate performance, compute a score and determine the language proficiency level of your students? Explain.

About classroom practices for English learner instruction

Taking into consideration the six criteria for organizing thematic instruction , how does thematic instruction help English learners develop subject matter knowledge , promote English language and literacy development , and serve students social development?

Language or dialect?

Read pages from 39 to 44 on Language, power, social standing, and identity by Peregoy and Boyle. Reflect on the case of Ebonics and the case of the English spoken in the Bay Islands. How are they different? How are they similar? Explain