Teaching for Biliteracy in the Elementary Grades

EECE

327

Teaching for Biliteracy in the Elementary Grades

This course provides an understanding of language and literacy learning in multilingual children in the elementary grades. It focuses on research-based literacy instructional and assessment practices that are developmentally, culturally and linguistically appropriate for teaching literacy in English and children’s additional languages. Students examine and have hands-on experiences with the design of literacy practices aimed building relevant knowledge while learning foundational language and literacy skills. Other major topics covered in this course are biliteracy, multilingual perspectives, and the role of culturally responsive and sustaining teaching practices in the elementary grades. This course partially satisfies the NYSED-mandated Bilingual Extension field experience. Restricted to students in the professional sequence of the major.

Undergraduate

Yes