MACI 411 - Literacy and Learning: Teaching of Reading and Writing 4-6

Prerequisite, admission to the MACI track. This course is designed to give teacher candidates an understanding of the elements of language and literacy learning for upper elementary grade students. Candidates will learn instructional strategies in a balanced literacy program between explicit and authentic literacy experiences. This course recognizes the relationship between reading and writing to broader theoretical and practical notions of multiple literacies, multiliteracies, media literacy, and critical literacy. The course pays special attention to students from diverse racial, linguistic and socio-economic, and other areas of difference and the material consequences of literacy acquisition. Students will participate in fieldwork. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits