EARLY LITERACY ACQUISITION

INSTRUCTOR(S): TBD
GRADE LEVEL: K-3
CREDIT: 2 or 3
 

This course will focus on understanding reading and writing as cognitive processes and how teachers' observations and assessments are the beginning point for instruction.  Observing children's literacy behaviors (implications of strategic activities) will help teachers develop a personal theory of the cognitive processes children are developing.  Learning appropriate instructional techniques to guide learning will help teachers reflect on their own instructional practices and how their classrooms are designed to encourage and instruct the developing reader and writer.  Teachers will explore the concept that instruction is based on what the individual child currently knows.

Required Text: Shaping Literate Minds, Dorn & Soffos, ISBN 978 1571103383