Overview
Description
Learning and instruction in reading, writing, oral language and literature for the 4-8 grades.
Requirements
Prerequisites
- admission to an elementary education program.
EDRL 300
Original catalog text
Prerequisites
EDRL 300; admission to an elementary education program.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall, Spring, and Summer
Terms
fall, spring, summer
Restrictions
admission to an elementary education program.
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- demonstrate understanding of the importance of establishing an effective context for literacy learning.
- demonstrate understanding of the importance of articulating and continually refining your definition of what counts as literacy and effective literacy teaching to promote student learning.
- develop, refine, and articulate a conceptual framework for making instructional decisions when teaching literacy.
- demonstrate understanding of important issues pertaining to the use of literature in literacy instruction.
- demonstrate understanding of different strategies, approaches, and reasons for teaching comprehension, response to literature, writing, and vocabulary and word study skills.
- demonstrate understanding of ways to attend to the literacy learning needs of children from diverse cultural, linguistic, and academic backgrounds.
- demonstrate understanding of ways to use, and help children to comprehend narrative and informational texts.
- demonstrate understanding of the relevance of authentic assessment and be able to use effectively different types of authentic assessments to inform your literacy instruction.