The course focuses on effective instructional strategies for promoting reading and writing skills in young children, specifically targeting the preschool and early elementary ages. The course incorporates both theoretical foundations and practical application through examples, case studies and good practices.
Some of the main topics are:
• The foundations of literacy development
• The development of language and vocabulary
• Designing literacy-rich environments
• Good practices for creating shared reading and writing experiences
• Differentiated instructional approaches to reading and writing for different needs and abilities of students
• The importance of the family context and cultural environment
• Cultivating a love of reading for young children
This course, through writing life histories focuses on the future teachers’ own reflection on their long process of acquiring literacy and their attitude towards future literacy as a lifelong relationship.