Your initial discussion thread is due on Day 3 (Thursday) and you have until Day 7 (Monday) to respond to your classmates. Your grade will reflect both the quality of your initial post and the depth of your responses.

Your initial discussion thread is due on Day 3 (Thursday) and you have until Day 7 (Monday) to respond to your classmates. Your grade will reflect both the quality of your initial post and the depth of your responses.

Preschool Plan For this Final Project, you will be given the opportunity to pull together everything you have learned these past five weeks into a cohesive classroom plan for a three- to five- year-old preschool program. The following is the make-up of your classroom. You have 12 students total:

1. Eight students are typically developing.
2. One student has an Autism Spectrum Disorder.
3. One student exhibits the following behaviors but has not been diagnosed with any particular learning need or disability.
   1. Limited language
   2. Jumps from activity to activity
   3. Engages only in parallel play
4. One student who has a Sensory Processing Disorder (e.g. she is sensitive to light, sound, smells, and textures such as paint, sand, glue, and clothing and she avoids physical proximity to people).
5. One student who is both cognitively and linguisti

Read Chapter 3 of your textbook, “A Brief Overview of the English Language.” You will learn about the basic components of language, which will help you become a better teacher of ELLs. As Honigsfeld and Cohan (2015) state, “To be an effective teacher of English language learners, it is critical to develop a foundational understanding of how standard American English works so that linguistic challenges ELLs face can be addressed more effectively” (Sec. 3.1). For more support, read Fillmore and Snow’s (2000) article, “What Teachers Need to Know About Language.”

Your instructor will divide the class into five groups and post the assigned groups in Announcements. For this discussion, you will focus on a specific component of language based on the group you are assigned to (see below).

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• Group 2: Morphology
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As an educator, it is vitally important that you understand how theory guides what teachers do in the classroom. As you review the various theories of second language acquisition in Chapter 4 of our text, which theory or theories of Second Language Acquisition (SLA) resonates most with you and why? How do you anticipate these theories might affect instruction in your own classroom? Provide at least three classroom-based examples of teaching strategies you might use to show the connection between theory and  practice. In other words, how might you use the theory or theories of SLA to support your English Language Learner in the classroom. Be sure to specifically relate