Assignment:
Effective practices to balance literacy instructions in early childhood
Read the joint position statement Technology and Interactive Media as Tools in Early Childhood Programs Serving Children from Birth Through Age 8 (Strickland, n.d.; National Association for the Education of Young Children & Fred Rogers Center, 2012).
Evaluate the key considerations in a balanced literacy approach.
Describe the instructional approaches you will use to teach (e.g., reading, writing, speaking and listening, and language on a daily basis, etc.). Provide a rationale.
Support how your plan aligns with the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) or your individual state standards-TX Use cited evidence from Common Core State Standards Initiative or your state education website to support this portion of your assignment.
Justify how your plan explicitly incorporates language across the curriculum. Include strategies for teaching students with limited English proficiency.
Explain how your plan incorporates the 21st-century requirement for children to be techno literate. Cite evidence from the joint position statement of the Technology and Interactive Media as Tools in Early Childhood Programs Serving Children from Birth Through Age 8 to support this section of your PP.