Topic: Selecting Texts for Emergent and Beginning Literacy Learners
Order Description
Review the Learning Resources and the media programs for this week and use the tools provided to select a combination of three narrative, informational, and digital texts on a single theme to meet
the literacy needs for both your emergent and beginning literacy learners.
•Depending on the data you collected, these texts might be used differently with your emergent and beginning literacy learners.
•Consider how you can use these texts to facilitate research-based reading and writing instruction.
Write a paper that describes the set of at least three texts you selected for both your emergent and beginning literacy learners. Include the following in your description:
•The topic or unit of study
•Title and author of each text
•Include the URL, or website address, for the digital text

Then:
•Explain how each text relates to the cognitive and noncognitive aspects of your emergent and beginning literacy learner.
•Explain how these texts can help you support your emergent and beginning literacy learners with regard to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and/or other standards.
•Identify and explain where each text falls on the continua from linguistic to semiotic and narrative to informational within the appropriate level of difficulty described in the Analyzing and
Selecting Text media program.
•Explain the specific difficulties related to the texts and the factors that impact the complexity of each text.
•Explain how you might use one or more texts in this grouping to facilitate student writing.