Language and Literacy
Course Content from CengageThis course introduces you to the pedagogy of language and literacy at the early childhood level. Learn about the basic constructs of reading instruction and how reading, literacy, and cognitive processes are developed.
- Self Paced
- Humanities
- Content by Cengage
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After completing the course, students will be able to:
- Specify the experiences children need from birth to age nine to prepare them to learn, read, and succeed in school.
- Identify early interactions with adults and peers, the Pre K – 4 teaching methods and curricula, and comprehensive interventions that support learning and development, specifically in domains that prepare children from diverse backgrounds for kindergarten and the early grades.
- Know the range of development, normative and non-normative, inter-and intra-variability for all children, including special learning and developmental needs from Pre K through nine years of age in the following areas of language: receptive vocabulary, expressive vocabulary, auditory comprehension, and pragmatic language.
- Effectively apply the principles and theories of child development, including: a) Developmentally-appropriate practices, b) Constructivism, and c) Socio-cultural theory.
- Become familiar with a four-processor model of reading (context, meaning, phonological, and orthographic) and understand that reading depends on language proficiency.
- Explain the relationship between phoneme awareness, phonological processing, and phonics.
- Define, identify, and segment important linguistic units including vowels, consonants, syllables, and onset-rime.
- Emphasize the role of vocabulary knowledge in reading comprehension and identify the ways in which word meanings are learned, in oral and written language.
- Make overt connections between and across the curriculum, students’ lives, literature, and literacy.
- Recognize phonological influences on children’s inventive spelling.
- Acquire adequate knowledge of literacy content, and related research-based pedagogy, based on sound educational psychology principles.
- Build and reinforce relationships between early spoken language and early pre-literacy abilities and consider influences of parent-child interactions in early shared storybook interactions.
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Topic |
Subtopics |
Objectives |
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The Emergent Literacy Learner |
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Assessment of Emergent Literacy |
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Running Record Assessment |
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4 |
Fundamentals in Literacy Instruction |
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Early Reading Skill Toolbox Assessment |
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Meeting the Literacy Needs of All Students |
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Philosophy of Teaching Literacy Assessment |
There are no prerequisites to take Language and Literacy.
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Topic |
Assignment |
Points |
LO Alignment |
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0 |
Statement of Academic Honesty and Integrity |
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1 |
Reflective Response: Preschool Collaboration and Drawing |
10 |
1, 2, 4 |
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1 |
Quiz #1 |
25 |
1, 2, 4 |
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1 |
Reflective Response: Picture Books |
10 |
2, 3 |
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1 |
Video Reflection: Daily Five |
15 |
2, 3 |
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1 |
Quiz #2 |
25 |
2, 3 |
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2 |
Reflective Response: Pre-Writing Strategies |
10 |
3, 5 |
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2 |
Quiz #3 |
25 |
1, 3, 5, 9 |
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3 |
Running Record and Analysis |
135 |
1, 2, 3, 4 |
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4 |
Reflective Response: Building Vocabulary and Oral Language |
10 |
6, 7 |
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4 |
Video Reflection: Phonics |
15 |
6, 7 |
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4 |
Quiz #4 |
25 |
6, 7 |
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4 |
Video Reflection: Teaching Vocabulary |
15 |
8, 9 |
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4 |
Quiz #5 |
25 |
8, 9 |
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4 |
Read Aloud Lesson Plan |
135 |
2, 4, 8, 9 |
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4 |
Reflective Response: Comprehension |
10 |
9, 11 |
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4 |
Quiz #6 |
25 |
9, 11 |
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4 |
Reflective Response: Spelling |
10 |
10, 11 |
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4 |
Video Reflection: Teaching Writing |
15 |
10, 11 |
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4 |
Quiz #7 |
25 |
10, 11 |
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5 |
Profile of a Reader |
135 |
6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 |
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6 |
Reflective Response: Literacy Curriculum |
10 |
12 |
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6 |
Quiz #8 |
25 |
12 |
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6 |
Reflective Response: F.R.I.E.N.D.S. |
10 |
1, 2, 11 |
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6 |
Video Reflection: Literacy Instruction for Diverse Classrooms |
15 |
1, 2, 11 |
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6 |
Quiz #9 |
25 |
1, 2, 11 |
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6 |
Reflective Response: Literacy Lesson |
10 |
1 |
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6 |
Quiz #10 |
25 |
1 |
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7 |
Philosophy of Teaching Literacy Paper |
180 |
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
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TOTAL |
1,000 |
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