2024-2025 Yavapai College Catalog 
    
    Oct 08, 2024  
2024-2025 Yavapai College Catalog

ECE 230 - Language and Literacy Experiences


Description: Language and literacy processes and the way in which literature enriches a child's development. Review of children's literature and methods of enhancing literacy experiences. This course is cross-listed with EDU 230 .

Credits: 3
Lecture: 3
Lab: 0

Course Content:
  1. Language and literacy processes
  2. Bibliographies
  3. Reviewing and evaluating children's literature
  4. Artistic content
  5. Lesson plans utilizing children's literature
  6. Story-telling and reading aloud

Learning Outcomes:
  1. Describe language development leading to literacy. (1)
  2. Define and use common literary genres to develop literacy skills. (1-3, 6)
  3. Identify criteria for selecting quality children's literature. (2-4)
  4. Plan lessons to promote language and literacy learning. (1,5,6).
  5. Identify literature for use in biblio-therapeutic contexts (2,3)
  6. Create a bibliography of literature for children. (2)