EDU 16 — Literacy: Birth - Grade 2
This course is designed to give students both theoretical and practical grounding in English Language Arts and Literacy. This course examines how children acquire and develop reading and language skills. Emphasis will be on children’s language and literacy development in multicultural, multilingual home and educational settings. Includes the study of language development for children with special needs. The course includes 10 hours of field work in home and educational settings with diverse populations and contrasting social and economic environments. Students will complete research and explore theories of the relationship between language acquisition and emergent/early literacy development in children.