Courses in Literacy Teaching and Learning
E LTL 300 Comprehensive Literacy I (3)
This class is an introduction to children's literacy development and classroom instruction. The course explores instructional and assessment practices consistent with research and learning standards. The course focus is on the core literacy components of phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. Instructional practices emphasize children's learning and thinking, instructional planning, tools for literacy instruction, text selection, and assessments.
E LTL 301 Comprehensive Literacy II (3)
This class has a focus on early literacy instruction and intervention in the primary grades. The course topics include instruction to support self-regulated early literacy learners, reading and writing as meaning making activities, developing speaking and listening skills, providing differentiated literacy instruction to learners, promoting motivation to read and write, and the development of phonological skills, word learning, oral language skills, and comprehension. Prerequisite(s): E LTL 300.
E LTL 351 Early Childhood and Childhood Methods of English and Social Studies Instruction (3)
This course focuses on history, culture, economics, government, and geography. In Students will learn theoretical and practical applications of historical and current concepts. Drawing on national and state standards, the course will emphasize materials selection, instruction, and assessment to promote conceptual understandings including a diverse range of perspectives on Social Studies and ELA content.
E LTL 400 Language Acquisition for All Learners (3)
This course provides an overview of language acquisition for all learners, including learning to read and write in English for bilingual and translingual learners. The course reviews current theoretical foundations and practical implementation of instructional practices of first and second language learning, including phonology, syntax, vocabulary, and academic discourse.
E LTL 404 (formerly E RDG 404) Children's Literature (3)
Students read and respond to multiple genres of children’s literature, including nonfiction texts, across both print and electronic platforms. Topics include: supporting and appreciating students’ complex responses to literature; analyzing the symbiotic relationship of words and pictures in visual texts; using technology to promote literary understanding; and meeting the standards by designing literature instruction informed by critical literacy perspectives.
E LTL 406 (formerly E RDG 406) Young Adult Literature (3)
Students read and respond to multiple genres of literature for young adults, including nonfiction texts. Topics include: understanding how adolescents build identities and worldviews through engagements with literature; supporting and extending students’ responses to literature through dialogic teaching; designing literature instruction to support close readings of complex texts informed by literary theory and disciplinary knowledge; using technology to promote literary understanding; analyzing the symbiotic relationship between words and pictures in visual, digital, and multigenre texts.
E LTL 410 (formerly E RDG 410) Literacy in Social Contexts (3)
This course examines historical and contemporary aspects of literacy, focusing particularly on the relation between literacy and forms of social and cultural life. Topics include: (1) perspectives on literacy; (2) the role of literacy in society; (3) implications of diversity on literacy development; (4) relationships among diverse communities of practice.
E LTL 487 (formerly E RDG 487) Institute in Education (2-9)
A special program, not part of the pattern of regular offerings, designed to meet particular nonrecurring needs. Available for department use and subject to department approval.
E LTL 487 Institute in Education (1-9)
A special program, not part of the pattern of regular offerings, designed to meet particular nonrecurring needs. Available for department use and subject to department approval. Repeatable four times up to 18 credits. S/U graded.
