Frequently Asked Questions

A.  Go to this site:  http://ecourses.wku.edu

2)  username:  your username for your WKU email address

3)  password:  same as the password for your WKU email account

4)  If you do not know what your Western email address is, or do not know your email password, go to the WKU Accounts Management Page to find out.

4)  Click on "Reading in the Primary Grades" that is our course (LTCY 420)

A.  Once you have logged onto Blackboard, do the following:

     1.  Click STUDENT TOOLS

     2.  Click STUDENT INFORMATION

     3.  You will see a listing of an email address, change it to the one you check EVERY DAY. 

A.  Once you have logged onto Blackboard, do the following:

      1.  Click on STUDENT TOOLS

      2.  Click on EDIT HOMEPAGE

      3.  If you have a photo that you would like to use and don't have it saved as a digital image, mail it to Pam Petty at home and she will scan the photo and send you the file via email.

A.  The purpose of an "interactive" read aloud is that students actually participate in some way DURING the reading.  Follow-ups are great and have their purpose ... I am all for them, but too many times teachers expect students to sit quietly during read alouds (and sometimes that IS appropriate) ... we want the skills to be able to INVOLVE students WHILE we read so that they have some "ownership" of the reading also.  Now, you can invent some hand signs or movements to go along with your read aloud, you can have students make sounds, or repeat words along with your read aloud OR any number of other things, but you need some small way of involving the students so that they have a PURPOSE for listening and feel like THEY are participants also.  Get it?

"The single most important activity for building the
knowledge required for eventual success in
reading is reading aloud to children."

National Commission of Reading

A.  Not organized yet? or Are you still trying to get organized?  Here is a trick that has helped me, maybe it will work for you. 

I gathered up about 25 manila folders, put the name of every assignment on each one.  On the outside of each folder I place the due date of the project.  I then place all folder in an expandable accordian file.  Then for each paper or notes I have on a given assignment I drop it into the corresponding folder.  I ended up with about 15 manila folders, but I can easily get to any information to work on a given assignment.  

Thanks Ken Baker!!  

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