| Course Title: The Process of Teaching and Learning: Developing Literacy in Early Childhood and Elementary Schools |
| Start Date: 01/28/2025 End Date: 05/13/2025 |
| Term: Spring Semester 2025 |
| Description: Through a balanced and integrated approach students will learn to develop literacy in early childhood/elementary schools. Class members will learn about emergent literacy, diagnosing language needs, integrating phonics skills in a literature-based program, the teaching of process writing, children's fiction and nonfiction literature, and the use of portfolios for assessment. Course required for spring semester practicum students. Course evaluation is based on written and oral work done individually and in groups. Requires a prepracticum. |
| Distribution(s): NO - Meets No Distrib. Rqmt , CBL - Community-Based Learning |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate | Credits:4.00 |
| Faculty | Phone | Email address |
| Sarah Frenette | 413-538-3300 | sfrenett@mtholyoke.edu |
| Meeting Dates | Method | Meeting days | Meeting times | Building name | Room | Frequency |
| 01/28/2025 - 05/13/2025 | Lecture | Wednesday | 07:15PM - 10:05PM | REES - Reese | 110 | Weekly |
| Permission of the Instructor is required of all students who wish to register. | ||
| Requisite Courses | ||
| None |
| Comments |
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| Cross-listed Sections |
| None |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Open | Capacity: 24 | Enrollment: 12 | Available: 12 | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List | Required | Publisher Full Price |
| Title: The Write Genre Author: Rog, Lori Copyright: 2004 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9781551381725 Publisher: Pembroke |
Required | 18.95 |
| Title: The Essentials of Teaching Children to Read: The Teacher Makes the Differen Author: Reutzel & Cooter, Ray & Robert Copyright: 2013 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780132963503 Publisher: Pearson |
Required | 87.00 |
| Title: Word Identification Strategies: Building Phonics into a Classroom Reading Author: Fox, Barbara J. Copyright: 2008 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 0131561308 Publisher: Merril/ Prentice Hall |
Required | 29.20 |
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