Child Development_Culminating Activity

Child Development

Culminating Activity

Table of Contents

Page / Title
1 / Table of Contents
2 / Overall Description
  • CASAS levels
  • Accommodations for class size
  • Activity type

3 / Culminating Activity Benchmarks
4 / Culminating Activity Instructions:
  • Set up!
  • Sign on!
  • Start up!
  • Sort through!
  • Step out!

Overall Description

Real-Life Experience

Students read books to children age 0-4 and evaluate the session.

Students will prepare a reading plan, read to a child in the target age group, and evaluate that session.

  • ELL low-intermediate and high-intermediate; CASAS range: 201-220
  • Class Size: This activity can be done with any size class.
  • Activity type: Real-life experience

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Child Development_Culminating Activity

Culminating Activity Benchmarks

Culminating Activity Description: Real-life experience – Students read books to children age 0-4 and evaluate the session.

CA Parts:
  • Learners will produce…
/ Reading/Writing Skills
Strategies / Speaking/Listening Skills
Strategies / Grammar:
Basic Literacy: / Numeracy:
Technology:
a completed plan and evaluation for reading session with children /
  • Plan effectively for a reading session with children
  • Evaluate reading session and modify plans for next reading session
/
  • Watch videos of parents reading to children and evaluate the reading session
  • Read to children using learned guidelines, without assistance

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Culminating Activity

Child Development

Instructions

Set up!

No classroom set-up required.

Recommend 1 day to brainstorm and frequent, short check-ins to be sure action is being taken.

Sign on! (Presentation)

Near the beginning of the unit, tell students that they’ll be reading to children on their own and evaluating that reading session. They are responsible for finding children to work with and for obtaining books. Planning and presentation are built into the Section Products for this unit.

Start up! (Practice)

Students conduct a reading session on their own time, based on their plan created in class. Students complete their own self-evaluation after the reading session.

Sort through! (Feedback)

Students work in pairs or small groups to share stories of their reading sessions and their self-evaluations.

*Step out! (Extension)

  1. Read to the same kid(s) again, making the changes you recommended. Evaluate using the original rubric. Did anything change?
  2. Teach a friend how to choose books and tips for reading to children. Ask them to tell you how their reading session went. Might they read to their children more often or differently, based on what they learned from you and from their experience?

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