Reflection Week 4
Week 4 Class Take Away I would have to say taking notes was a little easier watching the recording because I was able to go at my own pace and listen with out distractions. After taking notes on three chapters I thought my hand was going to fall off, there was so much great information I had to be sure to write it all down. Chapter 9 I enjoyed learning about the borrowed words from around the world that we use today in the English language. And that there are 42 phonemes in the English language, wow! We touched on Halliday's Seven Functions of Language, instrumental, regulatory, personal, interactional, heuristic, imaginative, and informative. Chapter 10 My favorite section was about the Readers Theater, the children interpret a book or a portion of a book in a dramatic presentation. The very first time I did this was right after graduating from Mizzou. I had a group of preschoolers who loved to "read" The Very Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle. So the preschoole