ECE 3150 - Developmentally Appropriate Practice II: Literacy Instruction K-3

Credits: 4

Prerequisite(s): RDG 3111, ECE 2950

Description: Students will examine intentional planning and management of effective literacy instruction for children in early primary (K-3) classrooms. Students will analyze the characteristics of literacy development of emerging, early, and fluent readers and learn to make effective decisions that facilitate knowledge, skills, strategies, attitudes, and behaviors requisite for greatest success in children becoming proficient readers and writers. The use of on-going assessment to inform instruction and flexible grouping is emphasized. Students must concurrently take the supervised practicum, ECE 3160. Students will conduct 45 hours in a designated early primary (K-3) classroom under the supervision of a cooperating teacher and a university supervisor.