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Sep 07, 2024
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Catalog 2023-2024 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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ECE 154 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:
- Be able to 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.
- 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
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