- What did your parents do (or not do) to promote your literacy development when you were growing up? How were you taught to read? What were some of your favorite books and why? What were some of the books you disliked and why?
- Think back to your own experience as an elementary, middle school, and high school student. Describe ways in which your teachers incorporated music and the arts into your learning experiences.
- What is meant by the term, “standards-based instruction?”
- What kinds of things do many preschool children know about printed language even before they have been exposed to deliberate literacy instruction?
- Why is it important for youngsters to engage in recreational reading¾that is, in reading that adults have not specifically asked them to do?