TCHR 409 - Literacy and Learning: PK-3

(Same as TCHR 500.) Prerequisite, admission to the Teacher Education program. Corequisite, TCHR 409L. This course is designed to give teacher candidates an understanding of the elements of research-based literacy learning for children in grades PK-3 within the context of a balanced literacy paradigm. Candidates will understand connections between reading, writing, speaking, and listening in language arts learning and instruction. Candidates will learn instructional strategies in a balanced literacy program between explicit and authentic literacy experiences. The course pays special attention to students from diverse racial, linguistic, neurodiverse, socio-economic, and other areas of difference and the material consequences of literacy acquisition. Students may participate in a praxis to tutor a student in grades PK-3. Letter grade. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits