Literacy Methods

Catalog description

Examines and demonstrates how to support children’sliteracy skills through balanced instruction, best practices, strategies, and theory. The course includes topics such as phonemic awareness, word study, decoding, spelling, vocabulary development, comprehension, fluency, writing, listening, speaking, and instructional sources to promote literacy as alifelong learning process. Throughout the course, students will plan, prepare, and assess various techniques in the literacy curriculum as well as methods of instruction that are responsive to the individual needs of all students, including, but not limited to ELL students those with exceptional needs.