Curriculum : The lesson aims to strengthen students’ knowledge on reinforcement practices of emergent literacy in Kindergarten.
Specifically, it focuses on the aims and the practices of literacy in Kindergarten, the curriculum and the way that children get involved with situations of reading and writing.
Finally, it helps students to develop their skills in order to design, apply and evaluate literacy activities in Kindergarten.
Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to:
● Report the purposes and the aims of the practices, that derive from current scientific data, concerning the emergent literacy.
● Identify and justify the differences between the several literacy practices that apply in Kindergarten, based on several criteria.
● Refer and explain the aims and the suggested practices that are mentioned in the curriculum.
● Design and apply literacy activities such as creating multimodal texts, reading informative books, organising discussions and supporting vocabulary.
● Be able to process several text genres in projects.
● Evaluate team or individual work and design activities.
● Make good use of current didactics that deal with communication, language and literacy.
● Record and evaluate their own activities.
● Understand their important role in children’s literacy.
Outline : ● Curriculum: A literacy perspective.
● Literacy as a social practice.
● Literacy Reinforcement Ε
● Main and secondary targets of teaching language in Kindergarten.
● Text - centred approaches.
● Language and literacy activities in Kindergarten.
● Linguistic education and projects.
● Reinforcement of children’s communicative and linguistic skills in several environments .
● Evaluation of linguistic education programmes.