EDU 416 - Pedagogical Approaches to Literacy Acquisition

Units: 3
When Offered: Fall
This course will focus on pedagogical approaches to emergent through fluent literacy acquisition. Teacher candidates will learn about word recognition (decoding/phonics, sight words, high frequency words, structural analysis), comprehension (explicit/literal, implicit/inferential, and evaluative), vocabulary, spelling, writing and fluency instruction. This course will also examine various research-based assessment practices for elementary school teachers.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Practicum: 5 weeks of fieldwork are required
Prerequisite(s): EDU 401, 410, and Elementary Education major