ECED& 180 - Language and Literacy Development: CD

1. Define language acquisition and early literacy; describe developmentally appropriate literacy behaviors. [COMMUNICATE]
2. Discuss the value of early literacy learning and the role of adults in promoting the power and pleasure of literacy. [COMMUNICATE]
3. Analyze and select children’s literature and other learning materials, reflective of a population of diverse learners. [REASON]
4. Recognize and create activities and resources that support children, from infancy through eight years, in language development and early literacy learning. [REASON]
5. Describe a developmental continuum and assessment practices for documenting reading and writing acquisition. [REASON]
6. Identify strategies for recognizing and responding to academic, linguistic, and cultural differences in children. [REASON]
7. Document components of a literacy-rich environment that support emerging language and literacy in a classroom representative of diverse cultures and languages. [EXPLORE]
8. 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]