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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 rhymes, and songs encourages literacy development (Coats, 2013).  Identify a piece of poetry, a nursery rhyme, or a song that can be used to encourage literacy development.  Describe three different ways you would use this piece to help build phonological awareness.  In addition, be sure to discuss how building these phonological awareness skills will promote literacy development.

Guided Response: Review and respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts.  Imagine you are a school principal or center director who has just observed an instructor teaching a lesson using one of the ideas your classmates mentioned for developing phonological awareness.  As you observed the lesson, you noticed that some students appeared to easily master the concept while others were struggling. Share an idea for how teachers can help a student who is struggling with phonological awareness.  Also, share an idea as to how teachers can enrich phonological awareness for a student who already has the concept mastered.

Carefully review the Discussion Forum Grading Rubric for the criteria that will be used to evaluate this Discussion Thread.