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Literacy Instruction in the Elementary School

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General

Prefix

ED

Course Number

408

Course ID

00013632-2024-08-26

Course Level

Undergraduate

Department/Unit(s)

College/School

College of Education and Learning Design

Description

Elementary Education initial licensure course. Exploration of the characteristics of readers and writers across developmental stages of literacy. Instructional strategies, research, and theories of teaching literacy across elementary content areas. Academic language, word analysis skills, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension with attention to inclusive strategies for multilingual and diverse classrooms.

Prerequisites

Credits

Min

3

Max

3

Goals and Diversity

MN Goal Course

No

Cultural Diversity

No

Learning Outcomes

Outcome

Analyze children's ability to use written, spoken, and visual language to communicate effectively with a variety of audiences and for different purposes.

Outcome

Construct strategies that provide explicit instruction in general academic and content-specific vocabulary development.

Outcome

Argue the critical role vocabulary knowledge plays in reading.

Outcome

Apply strategies to explicitly teach and provide guided practice in reading comprehension.

Outcome

Facilitate reading comprehension at various stages of development by selecting and using a range of texts, activities, and strategies before, during, and after reading in multiple ways.

Outcome

Design and implement strategies for teaching academic language including syntax, discourse, and vocabulary.

Outcome

Develop plans for literacy instruction that incorporate methods of fluent word-level skills in automatic word reading, oral reading fluency, reading comprehension, and motivation to read.

Outcome

Identify a range of strategies that support multilingual learner's English language development and literacy.

Course Outline

Course Outline

Comprehension instruction. 20% Vocabulary / morphological awareness/ academic language instruction. 20% Fluency instruction. 20% Speaking, listening, viewing instruction. 20% Creating a text set for teaching content objectives. 10% Identifying explicit instruction in literacy classrooms. 10%

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ED408 is a prerequisite for:

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