APR 170E Children’s Literature and Literacy

Lecture Hours: 3
Credits: 3

Explores in depth how children develop literacy. Offers an overview of what is available in quality children’s literature, along with a rationale for the purposes of such literature, ways to implement its use and ways to evaluate its appropriateness in a given school situation. Includes the evaluation and reading of children’s books and holding story groups with children.

Prerequisite: Placement into WR 090; or consent of instructor.
Student Learning Outcomes:

Discuss how children develop literacy.
Explain the connection between literacy and literature.
Select appropriate books for children including many aspects of diversity.
Read to children using a developmentally appropriate approach.
Develop language development in native, second, and dual language learners.

Content Outline

Literacy and Child Development
How Children Learn to Read and Write
Supporting Children’s Language Development Including Second Language Learners
Activities That Promote Literacy Including Different Types of Diversity
Selecting and Evaluating Children’s Literature
How to Read to a Group of Children
Promoting Children’s Intellectual Development Through Literature
Classics in Children’s Literature
Promoting Social-Emotional Development Through Literature
Planning a Literacy Program