2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

EDUC 417 Emergent Language and Literacy

This course introduces students to language and literacy development for young children, birth through age 8.  Students will explore theories of language development and the identification of readiness factors in emergent reading and writing. Attention is given to development, evaluation and special pre-reading and beginning reading needs of individual children as well as the use of assessment to plan for individual and group instruction.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

Admission to the Teacher Education Program

Offered

Spring semester of odd calendar years