EDLI 3500 - Methods for Teaching English Language Arts (3)

This course, designed to be taken in the first semester of the junior year, focuses on foundational components of reading instruction (print awareness, phonemic awareness, phonological awareness, fluency, word study and vocabulary, and comprehension), the reading process with an emphasis on and connection to theories regarding how children learn to read and write, and explores the stages of literacy development. This course is foundational to learning how to teach reading and writing in the early grades. Co-requisites: EDCI 3500, EDCI 3120, and EDCI 2100. Corequisite(s): EDCI 3500, EDCI 3120, and EDCI 2100