Teaching Literacy in the Classroom (1-6 Grades)

This course is designed to develop your theoretical, practical, methodological and evidence-based knowledge for teaching literacy in grades 1-6. It will also introduce you to key findings that have emerged across the past several decades of literacy research. You will explore principles, methods, and materials for teaching emergent to fluent literacy within a developmentally appropriate and culturally responsive interdisciplinary curriculum that encompasses strategies for developing children?s listening, speaking, reading and writing competencies. Throughout the semester you will be introduced to curriculum development and planning, and assessment tools for teaching literacy with an emphasis on multiethnic and multi-racial children?s literature, as well as the importance of oral storytelling in literacy development. This course offers a flexible set of tools for achieving equitable literacy outcomes with diverse student populations.

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