Teaching Literacy

Catalog description

This course provides the second part of language acquisition development and foundations of literacy. It continues the complex task of the teacher in developing the English Language Arts of all children focusing on developing skills in reading and writing. Topics in this course overlap with those of literacy in early childhood education and provide a foundation for understanding the challenges of reading that are further explored in Literacy I. Components of reading: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension are studied.