ECE 4410: Reading and Writing Across the Curriculum

3 Credit Hours

Prerequisite: MAED 3317 and ECE 3360 and ECE 3330 and ECE 3305
Corequisite: ECE 4650

This course consists of integrating language arts across the curriculum and effective strategies for planning, implementing, and evaluating instruction in reading, writing, listening, and speaking in preschool through fifth grade. Emphasis is placed upon assessment techniques and approaches to conducting guided lessons in reading and writing that are culturally and developmentally appropriate.

Course Learning Outcomes
Students who successfully complete this course will be able to:

Define content area literacy and explain the rationale for integrating language arts into the content areas.

Describe how reading and writing processes are interrelated.
Identify the significance of curriculum integration.

Demonstrate knowledge of the characteristics of dyslexia and how dyslexia impacts the literacies of children in K-5th grade across the curriculum.
Demonstrate effective application of appropriate technology, children’s literature, and multiple literacies to plan, implement, and evaluate reading and writing across the curriculum.
Effectively create lesson plans that demonstrate an application of constructivist research-based best practices and Common Core Georgia Performance Standards to meet the needs of different populations.
Integrate individual, family, cultural, and/or community assets into literacy assessment and instruction.
Advocate for change in societal practices and institutional structures that are inherently biased or prejudiced against certain groups.
Demonstrate how issues of inequity and opportunities for social justice activism and resiliency can be incorporated into the literacy curriculum.