Preparation+for+the+First+Day+of+566

[[image:wordcloud-welcome-heart-1 copy.jpg width="366" height="308" align="left"]] Welcome to EDTE 494/566 "Literacy and English Language Learners"
//In preparation for the first day of class, please do the following before Tuesday://
 * 1) Create a Wikispace account. Your username should be professional (not "chunkymonkey6"). You will receive an invitation from Wikispaces in the next couple days.
 * 2) Purchase the textbook - Gibbons, P. (2009). //English learners, academic literacy, and thinking. Learning in the challenge zone.// Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
 * 3) Read the following two recent newspaper articles about English Learners in Spokane Public Schools.
 * [[file:ELLs in SPS.pdf]] [[file:rogers soccer.pdf]]
 * 1) Read [|this article] about the stages of second language acquisition
 * 2) Watch [|this video] discussing first and second language acquisition (11 minutes)
 * 3) After reading/viewing these texts, jot down the following and bring it to class: 1) three new things you learned, 2) two lingering questions from the video/articles, 3) one professional skill you hope to gain from this class