Text Talk Lesson for Goldilocks and the Three Bears Retold and Illustrated by James Marshall Puffin Books, 1998 0-14-056366-0 Summary: Goldilocks and the three bears are the main characters. The three Bears made porridge, but it was too hot. So, they went on a bike ride while it cooled down. Meanwhile, Goldilocks comes to the [...]
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Text Talk Lesson on Goldilocks
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Beck and McKeown Assignment
Posted in Uncategorized on January 26, 2010 | 5 Comments »
1. What seem to be the most important points? This was a great article and very easy to follow and understand. I felt like the most important points of this article were the types of questions that teachers choose to ask children. This is a very important step in the Text Talk process. Teachers need [...]
Flanigan (2005) Assignment
Posted in Uncategorized on January 19, 2010 | 5 Comments »
1. What role does finger-pointing play in developing concept of word and phonemic awareness? Finger pointing is a very helpful and useful way for children to start of reading. But, if while they are finger-pointing, they are pointing at the wrong words, it is a useless tool. Teachers and parents need to help children understand [...]
Robbins and Ehri (1994) Assignment
Posted in Uncategorized on January 19, 2010 | 3 Comments »
1. How do children increase their vocabularies? Children can increase their vocabularies if adults would read stories aloud to them. They can become familiar with more words the more they are exposed to them. Two ways in which children can learn new vocabulary words are through direct references from adults who are naming objects and [...]
