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Measurable ObjectivesMeasurable Objectives

1. Explain the nature of 1. Explain the nature of supporting English Language supporting English Language Arts learning in a total literacy Arts learning in a total literacy classroomclassroom

2. Demonstrate a range of 2. Demonstrate a range of effective strategies, processes, effective strategies, processes, and techniques for supporting and techniques for supporting children’s communication children’s communication development (thinking, reading, development (thinking, reading, writing, speaking, listening, writing, speaking, listening, viewing, and performing)viewing, and performing)

3. Enumerate specific abilities that 3. Enumerate specific abilities that must be developed in readers to must be developed in readers to comprehend printed textcomprehend printed text

4. Evaluate a range of children’s 4. Evaluate a range of children’s trade books and other media to trade books and other media to enhance literacy experiencesenhance literacy experiences

5. Contrast phonetic, semantic, 5. Contrast phonetic, semantic, and syntactic cueing systems, and syntactic cueing systems, and how readers use them and how readers use them

6. Design authentic learning 6. Design authentic learning environments, accounting for environments, accounting for differences between isolated differences between isolated activities and the total learning activities and the total learning experienceexperience

7. Engage in evaluation and 7. Engage in evaluation and assessment, particularly the use assessment, particularly the use of portfolios and observational of portfolios and observational accounts of children’s reading accounts of children’s reading eventsevents

8. Evaluate yourself as a reader, 8. Evaluate yourself as a reader, writer, speaker, listener, speller, writer, speaker, listener, speller, viewer, and producer of oral, viewer, and producer of oral, print and non-print print and non-print communicationcommunication

9. Appreciate the home/school 9. Appreciate the home/school connection and children’s “funds connection and children’s “funds of knowledge” about literacyof knowledge” about literacy

10. Defend the concept of inquiry-10. Defend the concept of inquiry-based classroomsbased classrooms

11. Other Learnings? 11. Other Learnings?