Literacy Foundations

Catalog description

Study of historical, seminal, and current theoretical constructs and research that inform the acquisition of language and literacy skills in emergent and early readers. Specific focuses on learning to read and write; science of reading-informed practices, including phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. Critical examination of instructional reading materials; multiple literacies; the role of technology in literacy instruction; literacy for students from diverse cultural, linguistic, and developmental backgrounds and the relationships across reading, writing, listening and speaking. (Requires 10 field hours)