Putting It All	Practice 1	-
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For this PRACTICE, you are to adapt the "Morning News" Activity from Lesson 3 Handout #2 (Early Literacy Project Activities) and follow the teaching assumptions that guide participants in making instructional decisions within the ELP curricular approach. Fill in the table below with specific ideas of what you would do for each activity, gearing your answers toward a second grade classroom. A few examples are given. (Your ideas will no doubt expand beyond the confines of the table. The table can be used as a guide to help you relate the guidelines to the activities.)

Then, practice some of the activities with a small group of students. What did they seem to enjoy the most? From which activities did they gain the most? Were any too difficult? Were any too easy? What were some of your other observations? Share your opinions with others involved in this same practice activity.

ACTIVITIES

GUIDESLINES FOR MAKING INSTRUCTIONAL DECISIONS	Students write or dictate stories about a personal experience for publication in a class newspaper or magazine.	Teacher reads or records student ideas as she guides and prompts the students.	Students ask the authors questions so that the newspaper stories can be elaborated upon, shaped, and clarified.
1. Students should be involved in meaningful, purposeful, and integrated activities that include listening, speaking, reading, and writing.	Before writing, students talk about what kinds of personal experiences might be found in a newspaper or magazine. Students share orally some personal experiences.		Students read or tell their stories to a partner, who then asks the author to explain something in more detail.
2. Classroom dialogues need to be constructed to involve students in social interactions.
3. Students need to be supported with instructional scaffolding.