Understanding disabilities through children’s literature

Understanding disabilities through children’s literature

Purpose: The purpose of this assignment is to develop thinking dispositions and habits of mind to take advantage of children’s literature, to understand whole learning integrating children’s books and to connect theory and practice.
This assignment includes two parts:
(1) Research of an assigned special topic and a PowerPoint presentation presenting your findings about your special topic (this is a PowerPoint); and
(2) Written reflection on all other group’s special topic PowerPoints (this is a paper).

Directions for PART I: 
 Special Topic Research and PowerPoint (15 points)
You will be assigned to a Professional Learning Community (PLC) group that will investigate a Special Topic. With your group, make sure to complete the following steps:
1. Read and research the topic assigned to you. Your research may include professional articles, official websites, books, videos, pictures, etc. Sources such as Wikipedia will not be accepted because they are not reliable.
2. Next, with your group members, prepare a 15-minute PowerPoint presentation to share the information you have discovered about your special topic with the rest of the members in this course. Make sure each member records their voices over the slides.
3. Upload your PowerPoint in the Discussion Board.

Candidate use excellent examples to recognize the characteristics of proficient readers to more effectively differentiate instruction