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A Home For Leo, Marcella More

Diverse Families Bookshelf Lesson Plans and Activities

● Students will make decisions, such as raising hands or taking turns. ● Students will use collaborative techniques and active listening skills when engaging in discussions in a variety of situations. ● Students will use a combination of drawing, dictating, and or writing, provide factual information about a topic.

Beginnings: How Families Come To Be, Heather Bourgeois

Diverse Families Bookshelf Lesson Plans and Activities

 The student will compare children and families from the book "Beginnings: How Families Come to Be" with what families looked like and did in the past.  The student will explore the concept of family diversity by comparing and contrasting the characters’ experiences.  The student will recall information about the book to answer questions about family diversity.

Families, Families, Families!, Amanda Sanchez

Diverse Families Bookshelf Lesson Plans and Activities

Students will write a personal narrative about their families using a logical sequence of events, transitions, and an ending. ● Students will improve their writing as needed by planning, revising and editing. ● Students will present their writing about their families using complete sentences, appropriate volume, and clear pronunciation.

Digital Literacy: A Review Of Literature, Lennie Barblett, Raisa Akifeva, Leanne Lavina, Fiona Boylan

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

This report describes the main themes of collected literature to examine and explain the information in relation to making best practice recommendations for using digital technologies with children, and their families using Better Beginnings programs. These themes include:

• definitions of literacy,
• digital literacy in the context of childhood and children’s rights,
• dimensions of children’s digital literacy,
• digital technology, children and families,
• digital divide and diversity,
• eSafety, privacy, protection,
• children’s digital literacy learning, and
• librarian staff as digital literacy mentors and advocates.

The early childhood phase of childhood (particularly birth to age five) is one of the most under - researched …