ED 542 - Literacy and Language Development II

3 Credit(s)

This graduate course is a second course in the Literacy and Language Development sequence and focuses on reading and writing methodology and curricula in language development, content area literacy, vocabulary development, study skills, and, inferential and critical comprehension skills. Using the reading and writing processes as basic foundations, this course will provide the balanced practices related to the implementation of literacy instruction. The course will also include an extension of children’s literacy (expository) as a vehicle for exploring a variety of genres. Best practices research in the reading and writing instruction will be embedded throughout the courses