T485 – Pre-K to K Reading and Writing
This course examines the current research base for quality preschool and kindergarten programs and practices focused on oral language and literacy development for children from diverse cultures, languages, economic and developmental backgrounds. The course explores the origins of reading and writing in symbolic representational abilities of the young child that first emerge in learning to talk and participate in conversations, drawing, and pretend play. The course explores these roots to literacy and how the development of oral language along with the imagination and emersion in a literary early childhood environment prepares young children for the full potential of becoming avid readers and writers as they move into the primary grades.