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C I 208

• Please sign attendance sheet.

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Announcements

• Quiz 2 today
• Final Observation Paper due next week Day 2
• 1st Lesson Plan due next week Day 1
• Literature Log due today
• Childrens book due in 2 weeks

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Topics

• Multiple Sign Systems and Knowledge Systems in
  the Literacy Classroom

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Sign Systems can be used

• As tools for thinking about a book
• For sharing thinking with others

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Within sign systems literacy is defined broadly
as all the ways in which we make and share
meaning including

• Language
• Art
• Music
• Math
• Movement

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• Because sign systems are potential tools for
  thinking and exploring new ideas and for
  communicating and going public with ideas, these
  systems need to be available throughout the
  entire literacy experience.
• (Short, Kauffman, Kahn, 2000)

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Movement

• Color Dance by Ann Jonas
• Live Long Earth by Meighan Morrison

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Music

• When I am Old With You by Angela Johnston
• Song and Dance Poems Selected by Lee Bennet
  Hopkins

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Art

• My Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss
• The Big Orange Spot by Daniel Manus Pinkwater

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Math

• Seven Blind Mice by Ed Young
• Right Here On This Spot by Sharon Hart Addy

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Song and Dance Man by Karen Ackerman Illus. by
Stephen Gammell

• In small groups, discuss activities students can
  do within these 4 sign systems with this read
  aloud.
• Math
• Movement
• Music
• Art

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Homework - Readings

• BTR Ch 7, 8
• PKT School Talk Struggling Readers and
  Writers, Rosenblatt (Reader Response Theory)