ECED& 180 - Language and Literacy Development: CD

3.0 Credits
Develop teaching strategies for language acquisition and literacy skill development at each developmental stage, birth to age eight, through the four interrelated areas of speaking, listening, writing, and reading. S/U grade option.

Course-level Learning Objectives (CLOs)
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

Define language acquisition and early literacy; describe developmentally appropriate literacy behaviors. [COMMUNICATE]
Discuss the value of early literacy learning and the role of adults in promoting the power and pleasure of literacy. [COMMUNICATE]
Analyze and select children’s literature and other learning materials, reflective of a population of diverse learners. [REASON]
Recognize and create activities and resources that support children, from infancy through eight years, in language development and early literacy learning. [REASON]
Describe a developmental continuum and assessment practices for documenting reading and writing acquisition. [REASON]
Identify strategies for recognizing and responding to academic, linguistic, and cultural differences in children. [REASON]
Document components of a literacy-rich environment that support emerging language and literacy in a classroom representative of diverse cultures and languages. [EXPLORE]
Document strategies that encourage language and literacy development in diverse language learners through individualization of activities, interaction and selection of materials based on the child’s and family’s experiences. [EXPLORE]