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The Comprehensive Emergent Literacy Model: Early Literacy In Context, Leigh Rohde Mar 2015

The Comprehensive Emergent Literacy Model: Early Literacy In Context, Leigh Rohde

Leigh Rohde

The early skills of Emergent Literacy include the knowledge and abilities related to the alphabet, phonological awareness, symbolic representation, and communication. However, existing models of emergent literacy focus on discrete skills and miss the perspective of the surrounding environment. Early literacy skills, including their relationship to one another, and the substantial impact of the setting and context, are critical in ensuring that children gain all of the preliminary skills and awareness they will need to become successful readers and writers. Research findings over the last few decades have led to a fuller understanding of all that emergent literacy includes, resulting …

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The Post Office : A Social Studies Curriculum For Seven And Eight Year Olds, Carol Ribner Jan 1992

The Post Office : A Social Studies Curriculum For Seven And Eight Year Olds, Carol Ribner

Graduate Student Independent Studies

This paper presents a curriculum that I have developed and used with my class of second graders over the past three years. The curriculum is the study of the Post Office as part of a study of the neighborhood, and the subsequent planning and running of a schoolwide post office.

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A Description And Analysis Of An Integrated Science-Social Studies Curriculum For A Class Of Emotionally Disturbed Children, Margaret Mcnamara Nov 1978

A Description And Analysis Of An Integrated Science-Social Studies Curriculum For A Class Of Emotionally Disturbed Children, Margaret Mcnamara

Graduate Student Independent Studies

While working in a small independent special school, this writer developed an animal curriculum for four emotionally disturbed boys with another teacher. The teaching of this curriculum took place from March to June of the school year 77-78. This independent study is a description and analysis of the animal curriculum done with special students.

This paper is structured so that it begins with a description of the new environment of these children including a daily schedule. A short explanation of the group's functioning and brief case studies are included. Previous curricula and the origin of this curriculum is discussed. …

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The Selection And Evaluation Of Social Studies Audio-Visual Materials For The Elementary Schools Of The Alameda Unified School District, Paul A. Liebhart Jan 1950

The Selection And Evaluation Of Social Studies Audio-Visual Materials For The Elementary Schools Of The Alameda Unified School District, Paul A. Liebhart

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study is to establish criteria that will be valid for the selection through evaluation of social studies materials for grades one through six in the Alameda Unified School District. The school system feels a need for a rich variety of audio-visual instructional materials for their program so that its teachers might enrich the curriculum of the learner. It is recognized that many varied experiences will increase learning on the part of the student and will help him better to meet life with what he is familiar and has perceived. Kingsley gives the secret of securing and …

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