EDUC 3000 Emergent Literacy

EDUC 3000 Emergent Literacy
Emergent Literacy
This course introduces prospective teachers to children's speech and language development, recognition and development of readiness skills, the overall scope of emergent literacy issues, and appropriate methodologies for building the communication skills of young children. Students will learn approaches and strategies in the six core areas of literacy: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and writing. This course requires a minimum of twenty service learning hours in the Reading Buddy program at a public elementary school in grades PK-3. Undergraduates must also register for the within course service learning component EDUC 3890-10.
Pre-requistites: EDLA 2000, EDLA 2890 or EDUC 3250.
credit hours: 3