ELE ED 6337: Teaching and Learning Literacy in the Elementary Classrooms: Teaching Reading and Writing

Course Description

This course emphasizes literacy development, literacy instruction, and children's literature in the process of teaching reading and writing within diverse contexts and with linguistically and culturally diverse students. Candidates survey literacy development as a social practice, learn to effectively use children's literature to focus on methods of teaching reading and writing, and explore evidence-based practices related to phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and written composition.