Design a PowerPoint that shares primary reading resources

Design a PowerPoint that shares primary reading resources

Design a PowerPoint that shares primary reading resources, materials, and data in an eye-catching, engaging, and efficient way.

Focus on developing a PowerPoint that could be presented in an interview, showcased to highlight your professional development, referred to in lesson planning, and shared with colleagues and the families of your students.

 

Utilize the following design features in your PowerPoint:

Color(s) to make information stand out

Repetition to emphasize a consistent theme or idea

Font styles and size to represent the relative importance of an item

Graphs and visuals to represent numbers, data, and statistics

Lines to create a visual pathway to lead the viewer from one resource to another

Unique shapes, such as arrows and boxes, to help contain content and create visual focus

Relevant artwork, illustrations, and icons to add interest, deepen understanding, and draw attention to specific points

Negative or white space to distinguish between different items and topics

Web links

Principles of language acquisition and reading

Theories, standards, and research, including readings, citations, and links

A description of the experiential, cognitive, social, emotional, cultural, and language development aspects of primary readers

Meaningful activities and interactions that influence children’s language acquisition and reading

Roles that sight words, the alphabet, and phonological awareness play in children’s transition from oral to written language

Learning contexts to support English language learners’ conversational and academic language development

Foundations of print

Ways that children build concepts of print

Methods to teach and assess phonemic awareness

Role of cueing systems in primary reading instruction

Techniques for teaching vocabulary and phonics

Fluency, texts, and comprehension

A description of fluency in terms of automaticity, speed, and prosody

Daily opportunities to build children’s word knowledge and academic vocabulary

Role that high-frequency words play in reading and writing

Children’s spelling development

An explanation of how text complexity and selection influences reading comprehension

Ways readers approach, interpret, and connect to literature and informational texts

Methods for modeling, think-alouds, and applying fix-up tips

Selection of appropriate texts for English language learners and readers with varying experiences, interests, and abilities

Reading classroom and curriculum

Components of a rigorous and critical reading framework

Prompts that teachers use to check children’s reading comprehension

Strategies, texts, and technology to differentiate instruction-based experiential background, language, culture, and special learning needs

Techniques to develop college- and career-ready readers and writers

Methods to monitor and assess primary reading and writing

Address the following primary reading and writing topics in your PowerPoint:

Write a 350- to 700-word reflection that addresses the following questions:

How did creating this PowerPoint help you to better understand the topics and objectives in this course?

How would you incorporate these primary reading topics in your own classroom? Provide specific examples.

What are some benefits and challenges of incorporating these primary reading topics in your classroom?

What are the most helpful resources you’ve discovered in this course? Why? How can you use these resources in your classroom?

How does the information provided in this course align with the standards and expectations for early literacy in your district or a district you are interested in becoming employed with?

Include APA-formatted references where appropriate, and links to relevant course assignments, readings, videos, and discussions.