CD 260 - Emergent Literacy

Credits: 3
Contact Hours: 3

Prerequisites: CD 118 (C or Higher)

Corequisites: None

College Level Prerequisites: None

Description: This course focuses on literacy acquisition theory and practice from 0 to 3rd grade. Literacy development stages, factors that effect reading acquisition, and characteristics of fluent readers are included. The importance of play, schema theory, language development and reading acquisition, and assessment procedures are stressed. 20 hours of tutoring through GRPS are required.

Department Consent: No Consent

General Education Distribution Category Met: None