EG 5753 - Emergent Literacy (3)

This course focuses on how early language practices and the environment from birth to age five impact how a child learns to read and write. Theories of language development, cognition and learning will be highlighted along with study and application of various systems of language to the reading and writing processes. Course objectives include teaching phonemic awareness and phonics with an emphasis on speech production, teaching writing along with reading through children’s literature, understanding early literacy assessment tools, utilizing a variety of instructional groupings, and creating lifelong readers by focusing on story, vocabulary and comprehension. Special attention will be given to literacy acquisition for students from a wide-range of cultural, linguistic, and social backgrounds. Course objectives and topics are aligned with the Tennessee reading specialist standards and the International Reading Association’s standards for reading professionals (2010). Ed.S. sectional have additional assignments.