Course Catalog

This course provides preservice teachers with knowledge and skills necessary to promote early literacy development, specifically in 4-year-old kindergarten through grade 3. Students will develop competency and pedagogical strategies in the components of emergent literacy, including oral language development, phonological and phonemic awareness, concepts of print, the alphabetic principle, high frequency vocabulary development, decoding and spelling strategies, and fluency development. A variety of assessment techniques will be examined so that candidates can design instruction to promote literacy development based on students’ interests, assets and needs. Candidates will visit emergent literacy classrooms to observe and assist with literacy instruction and observe/assess student learning. This course includes a 12-hour observation requirement completed during class time. Prerequisite: EDUC 101 and EDUC 102. Fall, annually.