EDUC 321 - Lang Arts Children Pre-K to 4

4 Credits

1 Units

An introduction to the literacy process as it relates to children in the primary grades, kindergarten to fourth grade. The theory, knowledge, and teaching skills pertaining to the nature of the process will be explored by lecture, active participation, and classroom experience. This course includes reviews of current theory and research in language acquisition, cognition, and literacy. Literacy incorporates reading, writing, speaking, listening, and visual representation. Responding to literature, reading comprehension, fluency, word identification strategies, phonics, and language systems along with phonemic development and assessment forms will be a significant part of this course. This course also emphasizes the incorporation of technology and information management. Comprehensive literacy programs, including basal reading materials, will be surveyed. Inherent in the scope of the course is the nature of linguistics, learners’ abilities, and cultural variations as these factors relate to literacy learning. This will include strategies that meet the needs of linguistic, cultural, academic, and cognitive diversity. One of the underpinning goals is to prepare the student to think and respond like a teacher. 75-hour field experience.. Clearances and other documents for fieldwork required. Spring.

Prerequisite: GPA of 2.70; EDUC 100.2, EDUC 160, EDUC 211 and EDUC 244; passing scores on PAPA Reading, Writing, and Mathematics
Corequisite: Education 322, 358.2
Credit Type Code: Letter Grade