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• Please sign attendance sheet.

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Announcements

• Text Set due this week.
• Portfolio of Lesson Plans due week 13.
  Questions?

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Topics

• Multiple Sign Systems and Knowledge Systems in
  the Literacy Classroom
• Writers Workshop

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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
• Bein With You This Way by W. Nikola-Lisa

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Music

• John Coltranes Giant Steps Remixed by Chris
  Raschka
• Song and Dance Poems Selected by Lee Bennet
  Hopkins
• What A Wonderful World illus. by Ashley Bryan
• Ragtime Tumpie by Alan Schroeder
• I Live In Music by Notzake Shange

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Art

• I Spy Two Eyes Numbers in Art devised and
  selected by Lucy Mickethwait
• The Big Orange Spot by Daniel Manus Pinkwater

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Math

• The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
• On The Day You Were Born by Debra Frasier

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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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Lets Create a Vaudeville Show

• Scenery
• Costumes
• Music
• Dancing
• ?

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Writers Workshop

• Mini-Lesson Presentation
• Those of you who would like to use the lab,
  please report back 5 minutes before the end of
  class.

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Homework - Readings

• Whole-to-part phonics instruction article