ECE 220 - Language Arts for the Young Child

1. describe the standard for a high-quality language arts program for emergent and beginning readers and writers;
2. recognize adult roles that support and promote language development in young children;
3. identify activities that support family literacy;
4. describe theories of language development in early childhood education;
5. describe the interrelatedness of listening, speaking, reading and writing in language development, including the identification of characteristics and stages of listening and speaking, the role of storytelling, emergent reading and phonemic awareness, use of environmental print and emergent drawing and writing relationships;
6. identify how culture and environment affect language development;
7. evaluate instructional strategies for supporting emergent readers and writers;
8. select quality children’s literature to support language development;
9. explain how assessment and documentation strategies are used to assess children’s progress in language arts.