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 Early Childhood Education
Active Date 20220330T15:33:50

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
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 oral language and literacy creating a plan for effective, inclusive, and culturally sustaining early literacy instruction.

Formulate suggestions for enhancing literacy development leveraging home and cultural factors that naturally stimulate children’s reading and writing.

Describe variations in instruction that support inclusive mono, bi-, and multilingual development.

Construct a plan for a literacy rich classroom environment to support learning for linguistically and neurodiverse children from birth to age eight.

Develop strategies to share data with families in ways that are culturally and linguistically inclusive and affirming.