Teaching for Biliteracy in the Early Childhood Grades

EECE

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Teaching for Biliteracy in the Early Childhood Grades

This course provides an understanding of language and literacy learning in multilingual children from birth to grade two. The course exposes students to current research and theories on language development and early reading and writing in monolingual and multilingual children. Students gain familiarity with research-based literacy instructional and assessment practices that are developmentally, culturally and linguistically appropriate for teaching literacy in English and children’s additional languages. Other major topics covered in this course are biliteracy, multilingual perspectives, and the role of culturally responsive and sustaining teaching practices in early childhood. This course partially satisfies the NYSED-mandated initial field experience prior to student teaching.

Undergraduate

Yes

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