ECED 2263: Heads Up Reading

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Subject:
Early Childhood Education
Credit hours: 3 Lecture hours: 3 Lab hours: 0
PCS code (Local ID):
Occupational/Technical
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Course Description

This course includes research-based principles and practices for providing children birth through age 5 with a strong foundation in early reading and writing while using a developmentally appropriate approach.

Topical Outline
  1. Curriculum
  2. Assessment
  3. Talking
  4. Playing
  5. Reading
  6. Writing

At the end of this course, students will be able to:

  • Define literacy and emergent/early literacy; describe the developmental continuum of reading and writing and ways of assessing children’s language development and literacy learning; and describe the teacher’s role in promoting language and literacy.
  • Create literacy environments for children; plan engaging curriculum to support language and literacy; and describe ways of involving families in supporting language and literacy in young children.
  • Analyze and select appropriate literature and other learning materials for diverse learners and respond to individual, cultural, and linguistic variation among children.