Erly Litrcy Instruction I(Bir-Grade2)

Catalog description

This course focuses on the use of oral language, general cognitive skills, the concepts underlying reading and writing, and specific literacy skills as the context for supporting initial steps toward literacy for young children. Course topics include activities to promote phonemic awareness, understanding of the alphabetic principle, and beginning word recognition through letter-sound relations; motivational issues that pertain to the development of reading skills; meeting the needs of young children, including those with limited proficiency in English, who enter day care, nursery school, and other early childhood and intervention programs with limited literacy-related knowledge and skills; language-related experiences at home as well as at school; and the importance of providing frequent opportunities to write. Students are exposed to evidence-based methods of instruction and critically examine the concept that instruction should be evidence-based.