Description
This course explores a comprehensive literacy framework for emergent and early reading instruction, focusing on the foundations of literacy, how reading develops and the stages of readers. Key topics include learner motivation, oral language, common models of reading, phonological and phonemic awareness, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension. Students will examine and facilitate assessments and instructional practices that foster literacy development, grounded in the Science of Reading. Emphasis is placed on effective individual, small-group and large-group instruction. A field-based practicum experience in a primary classroom is included. (4 s.h.)