Promote early literacy and language development through play, books, and classroom strategies.
This course covers the development of language in children and outlines experiences and techniques that enable children to further that development. You’ll learn how to promote oral language abilities through the active use of books, poetry, dramatic play and group discussions. You’ll gain insight into grammar, phonology and semantics; common speech problems, and language arts curricula that can help foster literacy in the classroom. The course also reviews the reading process along with various reading theories and issues.
In order to satisfy course requirements, class participants must participate in discussions, complete all course assignments on time (on or before the due date), and use graduate level writing/presentation for all written assignments. It is fine to turn in assignments ahead of time!
