FOUNDATIONS OF LANGUAGE AND READING INSTRUCTION IN ELEMENTARY EDUCATION

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Declared in Elementary Education BSE or Elementary Education and Special Education BSE Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Recognize the complex nature of early literacy learning processes, including the ways that cultural, linguistic, racial, and ethnic diversity shape these processes. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Situate diversity as a core asset in early literacy instructional planning, teaching, and selecting texts and materials. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Explain the centrality of language to literacy learning and identify instructional approaches and materials that support listening, speaking, viewing, and representing skills of young learners. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Articulate the multiple dimensions of reading development, including concepts of print, phonological awareness, phonics, word recognition, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Demonstrate knowledge of instructional approaches that support early reading instruction and understand the strengths and limitations of various informal and formal assessments. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Recognize the complex nature of early literacy learning processes, including the ways that cultural, linguistic, racial, and ethnic diversity shape these processes. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Situate diversity as a core asset in early literacy instructional planning, teaching, and selecting texts and materials. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Explain the centrality of language to literacy learning and identify instructional approaches and materials that support listening, speaking, viewing, and representing skills of young learners. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Articulate the multiple dimensions of reading development, including concepts of print, phonological awareness, phonics, word recognition, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Demonstrate knowledge of instructional approaches that support early reading instruction and understand the strengths and limitations of various informal and formal assessments. Audience: Undergraduate