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ECE 335 Week 5 Discussion 1 Your initial discussion thread is due on Day 3 (Thursday) and you have until Day 7 (Monday) to respond to your classmates. Your grade will reflect both the quality of your initial post and the depth of your responses. Reading Fluency Chapter 9 of our text goes into depth about the importance of fluency instruction. In Section 9.2, the author lists five different methods for helping children to be ...

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ECE 335 Ashford 4 Week 3 - Discussion 2 Your initial discussion thread is due on Day 3 (Thursday) and you have until Day 7 (Monday) to respond to your classmates. Your grade will reflect both the quality of your initial post and the depth of your responses. Television and Literacy Section 6.6 of the text discusses how we can pick up tips and techniques from children’s media to aid our teaching with this new media-literat ...

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ECE 335 Ashford 4 Week 3 - Discussion 1 Your initial discussion thread is due on Day 3 (Thursday) and you have until Day 7 (Monday) to respond to your classmates. Your grade will reflect both the quality of your initial post and the depth of your responses. Phonological Awareness As discussed in Chapter 5 of our text and in the video above Building Literacy Competencies in Early Childhood, exposure to stories, poetry, nursery ...

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ECE 335 Week 4 Journal Self-Evaluation Reflect on your coursework so far. What have you learned so far that you think will be useful in your future career? How will you use this new knowledge? Which assignment challenged you the most, and in what ways? Discuss the assignments you found the most interesting or engaging, and explain why you felt this way. At this point, do you feel prepared to utilize the information you have gained th ...

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ECE 335 Week 4 Discussion 1 Your initial discussion thread is due on Day 3 (Thursday) and you have until Day 7 (Monday) to respond to your classmates. Your grade will reflect both the quality of your initial post and the depth of your responses. Storytelling Stories are everywhere. They are the basis of our nightly news, our conversations at the dinner table or on the phone, and the articles we read in our local newspaper. ...

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ECE 335 Week 5 Discussion 2 Your initial discussion thread is due on Day 3 (Thursday) and you have until Day 7 (Monday) to respond to your classmates. Your grade will reflect both the quality of your initial post and the depth of your responses. Nonfiction Text In Section 10.3 of the course text, the following authors are listed as the superstars in the world of children’s nonfiction (Coats, 2013): a. Nic Bishop ...

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ECE 335 Week 5 Journal Learning to Read or Reading to Learn? As children develop their reading skills, they go from learning to read to reading to learn. Do you remember when you went from learning to read to reading to learn? What do you remember about this time? If you do not remember this, what do you think it would look like when a student goes through this phase of reading? Journal Options: a. Written reflection journal. b ...

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ECE 335 Week 3 Journal Using Gestures Using gestures while reading helps children to increase their vocabulary skills. Think back to a nursery rhyme from your childhood that included gestures, such as “The Wheels on the Bus.” How do you think the gestures helped you to understand the meaning of the individual words in the song? How did they help you to understand the song as a whole? How does reflecting on this idea influe ...

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ECE 335 Week 3 - Assignment Parent Literacy Presentation As early childhood educators, it is our responsibility to assist parents in encouraging the development of literacy in their children. As mentioned in Section 5.1 of the text, one way to do this is by providing resources to our parents on how they can foster literacy at home (Coats, 2013). For this assignment, create a PowerPoint presentation that includes the following: a. A t ...

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HSA 599 Week 9 Discussion 2 "Strategy and Culture" Please respond to the following: • Assess the importance of the link between a healthcare organization's culture and its structure, relative to the successful implementation of its chosen strategy. Provide one example of such importance--or lack thereof--to support your position. • Select the three factors of an organization's culture that you feel are important to successfully imp ...

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