EDUC 431 - Advanced Emerging Language & Literacy/ELL

5 Credits

Work with colleagues and peers to deepen your understanding of how literacy emerges with young children, as well as strategies to support dual language development and English language learning children.

Pre-requisite(s) EDUC& 115, EDUC& 130, ECED& 160, EDUC& 204 and EDUC 240 with min. 2.0
Program Admission Required Yes Admitted Program BAS - EDUC
Fees

Quarters Typically Offered
Fall Online
Designed to Serve BAS in Teaching and Early Learning students focused on children birth to 5 and their families.
Active Date 20200330T21:15:06

Grading System Decimal Grade
Class Limit 30
Contact Hours: Lecture 55
Total Contact Hours 55
Degree Distributions:
ProfTech Course Yes
PLA Eligible New Option

Course Outline

Foundations of Language and Literacy
Oral Language Development
Family Literacy and Language Development
Literacy and Diversity
Organizing Early Language and Literacy Instruction
Developing Oral Language Comprehension
Teaching Early Reading and Writing
Assessing Young Children’s Language and Early Literacy: Finding Out What They Know and Can Do

Student Learning Outcomes
Analyze the connection between language and literacy, and the effectiveness in early literacy instruction.

Explain how the major perspectives on children’s language development contributes to language development over time.

Describe home and culture environment factors that stimulate children’s reading and writing development and develop suggestions for enhancing literacy development.

Compare children’s acquisition of a second language with development of their first language and list strategies to assist children in learning English.

Describe the set up for a well-arranged, literacy-rich classroom environment providing an ideal setting for learning to read and write at the infant-toddler and PreK-Kindergarten levels.

Explain the connection between oral language comprehension and early literacy development and learning.

Identify and describe approaches to early reading and writing instruction and key features that address grouping, differentiation, vocabulary and writing development and assessment.

Use assessment information for planning effective instruction and to share information with families.