EDUC 430 - Advanced Language and Literacy

5 Credits

This course is designed to expand candidates’ understanding of how literacy development, reading and writing skills emerge within each other in the English language and the different stages of second language acquisition. The focus will be on interpreting and understanding the experience of a whole child, as they build their ability to speak, understand and produce written English language, between the variety of English exposure. Candidates will develop understanding for the science of reading to support differentiated instruction and support diversity for students who identify as Multilingual Learners (ML). We are broadly introducing a variety of ELA, reading, literacy, phonics/phonemic awareness and writing curricula suitable for whole-group and small-group instructional frameworks to support new ideas, teaching strategies and lessons and incorporate skills of reading and writing development that best support students who identify as ML. This will naturally discuss topics on how to read and analyze Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in Washington state, to guide candidates’ and create appropriate, yet high-level and in-depth learning targets and success criteria (learning objectives or essential questions) of topics relating to this course. This will lead to topics of creating and developing appropriate lesson plans or a sequence of curriculum maps/units. Lastly, properly learn how to backwards plan instruction with data-based student information to decide on an end-goal in mind to practice documenting student’s progress within any instructional environment.

Pre-requisite(s) EDUC 354 with a 2.0 min
Program Admission Required Yes Admitted Program BAS - EDUC
Fees

Quarters Typically Offered
Spring Evening, Online

Designed to Serve Students of the BAS in Elementary Education program in preparation for residency
Active Date 20250520T14:11:18

Grading Basis Decimal Grade
Class Limit 24
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 essential components of proficient reading and writing.

Identify and explain how the Five Stages of Second Language Acquisition impacts planning appropriate instruction when teaching in a K-8 environment. Explain the definition and importance of scaffolded support for transitional readers’ and writers’ critical engagements with complex text.

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.

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.

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