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