The Language Domain

Please no plagiarism!  

1. Share your favorite children’s book and outline a related activity based on the book that makes use of technology in an integrated way and meets one goal from each language development area (listening, speaking, reading, and writing). A variety of lesson plan formats and templates are available at Teacher Planet. Include the design of an independent, exploratory-play center related to the book in your answer.

2. For this discussion, imagine you are a classroom teacher and your school has just adopted a new social-emotional learning curriculum. The parents of your students are concerned that this will take valuable time away from academic subjects and that this is something parents should teach at home. Your job is to write an explanation of this curriculum for your classroom website. In this description, define what social-emotional learning is and what it isn’t. Provide links for parents to find out more about it and what the research says about it.  Describe how social emotional learning will enhance learning in other content areas and the benefits their children will experience.