FCS 5220 - Early Childhood Language and Literacy

Meets with FCS 6220. Designed to prepare students for teaching language arts in early childhood classrooms. Major topics include: theories and stages of language, reading and writing development, characteristics of young literacy learners, writing as a composing process reading cueing systems, and text characteristics. Students have first-hand experience with different approaches to teaching reading and writing. Additionally, assessment techniques are explored. Students enrolled in FCS 6220 will be held to a higher standard of performance and may be assigned additional work.