Literacy I: Elementary Language & Literacy Development

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This course provides foundational knowledge, theory, and current research about children’s oral and written language and literacy acquisition and development from birth through adolescence. Linguistic elements and systems of the English language will be examined, including phonology, grapheme-phoneme correspondence patterns, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. Application of this foundational knowledge to developmentally-appropriate language and literacy instruction in grades pre-primary through grade 6 will be stressed.