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Implement the processes and instruction embedded in the Writer's Workshop model.  Students choose writing topics, set goals aided by the teacher, document progress towards goals and self-assess skills. Teacher's main role is to provide authentic writing experiences, assist students in obtaining their goals, facilitate peer assessments, and teach mini-lessons on issues that arise. Students consider the reader (audience) of their writing to help them construct text that possesses successful writing traits.

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Implement the processes and instruction embedded in the Writer's Workshop model.  Students choose writing topics, set goals aided by the teacher, document progress towards goals and self-assess skills. Teacher's main role is to provide authentic writing experiences, assist students in obtaining their goals, facilitate peer assessments, and teach mini-lessons on issues that arise. Students consider the reader (audience) of their writing to help them construct text that possesses successful writing traits.

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Dominant Cultural Perspective of Education

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Dominant Cultural Perspective of Education

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I must be willing to challenge my beliefs and continually research new approaches. Awareness of my beliefs and understandings,  based on current research, allow me to be an empowered teacher.

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I must be willing to challenge my beliefs and continually research new approaches. Awareness of my beliefs and understandings,  based on current research, allow me to be an empowered teacher.

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Educational Factors to Language Development

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Educational Factors to Language Development

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Individual Student Factors to Language Development

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Individual Student Factors to Language Development

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Differentiate instruction dependent upon student factors. 

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Differentiate instruction dependent upon student factors. 

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Gender, socially accepted language functions, cultural view of language, social structure, second language learning, literature experiences in the home.

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Gender, socially accepted language functions, cultural view of language, social structure, second language learning, literature experiences in the home.

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Historical considerations - Teacher mindset of reading the word to read the world. Implementing critical literacy in the classroom. Considering the role of functional, cultural, and progressive literacy.

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Historical considerations - Teacher mindset of reading the word to read the world. Implementing critical literacy in the classroom. Considering the role of functional, cultural, and progressive literacy.

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Lack of resources limits the child's exposure to literature, impacting language learning. Dominant discourse maintains power and control over what constitutes language development and how language is taught. 

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Lack of resources limits the child's exposure to literature, impacting language learning. Dominant discourse maintains power and control over what constitutes language development and how language is taught. 

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Establish a foundation of decoding, phonemic awareness, spelling, and vocabulary. Phonics' instruction is short, systematic and intensive dependent upon student age and ability. Continually model and practice making the implicit, explicit by teaching the thinking, comprehension, constructing meaning, and metacognition of reading. Phonics and comprehension are accomplished through the use of authentic, whole texts. Ultimate goal is the meaning making of text. 

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Establish a foundation of decoding, phonemic awareness, spelling, and vocabulary. Phonics' instruction is short, systematic and intensive dependent upon student age and ability. Continually model and practice making the implicit, explicit by teaching the thinking, comprehension, constructing meaning, and metacognition of reading. Phonics and comprehension are accomplished through the use of authentic, whole texts. Ultimate goal is the meaning making of text. 

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Teacher Literacy Beliefs and Approaches 

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Teacher Literacy Beliefs and Approaches 

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Children's ability to become proficient language learners.

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Children's ability to become proficient language learners.

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Interactionist Model - (Vygotsky) Based on sociocultural influences, children learn language out of a desire to communicate with the world around them. Language emerges from, and is dependent upon, social interaction.

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Interactionist Model - (Vygotsky) Based on sociocultural influences, children learn language out of a desire to communicate with the world around them. Language emerges from, and is dependent upon, social interaction.

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Behaviourist Model - (Skinner) Learning language is accomplished through reinforcement. A child starts to make a sound like a recognizable word and he/she receives positive feedback from a caregiver. Thus, language arises from stimuli and stimuli response. 

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Behaviourist Model - (Skinner) Learning language is accomplished through reinforcement. A child starts to make a sound like a recognizable word and he/she receives positive feedback from a caregiver. Thus, language arises from stimuli and stimuli response. 

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Nativist Model - (Chomsky) Learning language is a natural, inherent process for humans. We are born with a language acquisition device that has a critical use period from ages 0 to 9. 

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Nativist Model - (Chomsky) Learning language is a natural, inherent process for humans. We are born with a language acquisition device that has a critical use period from ages 0 to 9. 