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Jun 26, 2025
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EDU 3345 - LIT ACQUISITION & DEVLP PRESCH & EL SCH LEARNERS
credits: 3.0
This course provides prospective teachers with the principles and practices for teaching literacy acquisition and development to all children in preschool through grade three. Emphasis is placed on assisting young students to use listening, speaking, reading, and writing for acquiring information, developing understandings, constructing literary responses, creating literary expressions, conducting critical analyses, carrying out evaluations, and developing social interactions. Objectives: A) Use philosophical views of literacy acquisition and development in planning and implementing literacy instruction for preschool through grade three students; B) Design lessons that are developmentally and academically supportive of the concepts, skills, and strategies essential for young learners to acquire and develop reading, writing, listening, and speaking; C) Assess student’s literacy behaviors and use the results in planning, implementing, and assessing literacy instruction; D) Plan literature units that overview book types, genres, and story elements and devise teaching strategies that cultivate multi- and transcultural perspectives in young learners; E) Develop literacy lessons that incorporate informational texts, references materials, and electronic resources; F) Design a literacy curriculum that integrates New York State, National, and Common Core curriculum standards and guidelines, a curriculum that: 1) Enables preschool through third grade learners to use literacy for information and understanding, 2) Enables preschool through third graders to relate text material to their own lives, broaden their views of diversity, social, historical, and cultural dimensions of texts, and use productive language for self-expression and artistic creation, 3) Enables preschool through third grade learners to use literacy for critical analysis and evaluation, and 4) Enables preschool through third grade to use literacy for social interaction; G) Plan and teach a literacy curriculum that supports and enhances literacy earning for all learners within the classroom; H) Design teaching strategies that integrate reading, writing, listening, and speaking within the preschool through grade three literacy curriculum and devise techniques that connect literacy learning to the content areas. Method of Instruction: Lecture, discussions, demonstrations, student presentations, and small group collaborations. Method of Evaluation: Class participation, lessons and activities, literature study, projects, and exams.
Prerequisite(s): JUNIOR STANDING and EDU 2020 . For Speech and Language Disabilities majors only: JUNIOR STANDING and CSD 2250 .
Co-Requisite(s): With EDU 3645 .
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