ECE 9420 - Early Literacy Learning

3 Credit Hours
Requirements: A minimum grade of “B” is required for this course.

Description
This course will focus on literacy learning using theory and research from the domains of literacy and child development. Integrating the work of emergent literacy scholars with child development scholars should enrich understandings of the beginnings of literacy development and may enhance understanding of older students who struggle as readers and writers. It will address questions such as: How do the first years of a child’s experience set the trajectory of meaning-construction? How might human developmental theories inform an understanding of how a child develops as a reader, writer, language user? Why might a child who demonstrates success in solving problems and navigating in his/her own culture be labeled as deficient when he or she begins formal reading instruction?