EDUC 430 - Advanced Language and Literacy/ELL

5 Credits

The experiences of students in the Resident’s placement will be used as case studies to help Residents understand how reading and writing skills emerge. The focus will be on interpreting and understanding the experience of the students as they build their ability to understand and produce written English language. Candidates will develop strategies that address diversity through differentiated instruction and supporting English Language Learners.

Program Admission Required Yes Admitted Program BAS - EDUC
Fees

Quarters Typically Offered

Fall Evening

Designed to Serve Students in the Residency year of the BAS in T&EL
Active Date 20190207T16:51:20

Grading System Decimal Grade
Class Limit 30
Contact Hours: Lecture 55
Total Contact Hours 55
Degree Distributions:
ProfTech Course Yes
Course Outline

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

Student Learning Outcomes
Explain the importance of essential components of proficient reading and writing.

Explain how the five stages of literacy development from K-8 impacts what you teach.

Explain how a) classroom design, b) engagement and motivation of students, and c) the organization and management of large and small groups for reading, writing, and word study work together in the practice of highly-effective teachers.

Create a comprehensive approach to student assessment that may include screening, diagnostic, progress monitoring, interim/benchmark, outcomes assessments, and the literacy essentials within a unit for one of the developmental stages.

Compare and contrast your literacy instruction for English learners with your literacy instruction for native-speaking students.

Describe how readers and writers grow and change throughout the emergent, beginning, and intermediate stages of development.

Describe how teachers help students develop sophisticated vocabulary, thinking skills, and comprehension in the beginning stages of reading, and analyze student growth in connection with these practices.

Explain the definition and importance of scaffolded support for transitional readers’ and writers’ critical engagements with complex text.

Plan instruction and intervention for struggling readers, based on analysis of literacy assessments.