Language Arts for the Young Child

Catalog description

Three lecture. Study of theories and practices to assist young children in language and literacy development. Focus on both oral and written literacy through listening, speaking, reading and writing. Students will be able to: describe the standard for a high-quality language arts program for emergent and beginning readers and writers; recognize adult roles that support and promote language development in young children; identify activities that support family literacy; describe theories of language development in early childhood education; describe the interrelatedness of listening, speaking, reading and writing in language development, including the identification of characteristics and stages of listening and speaking, the role of storytelling, emergent reading and phonemic awareness, use of environmental print and emergent drawing and writing relationships; identify how culture and environment affect language development; evaluate instructional strategies for supporting emergent readers and writers; select quality children’s literature to support language development; explain how assessment and documentation strategies are used to assess children’s progress in language arts.