Teaching Literacy in the Elementary Grades Through Literature

Course Description 

This course will focus on Children's Literature in English to include riddles,  poetry,  stories,  drama  and other written works as an avenue  to teach English language.  Teaching methodologies in the use of literature shall be emphasized.  At the end of the course,  the pre-service teachers will be able to:  (1) demonstrate content and pedagogical content knowledge on teaching literary through literature in the elementary level; (2) demonstrate understanding of learning environments that promote love for reading, fairness, respect and care to encourage learning;  (3)  implement teaching strategies that are responsive to the learner’s linguistic, cultural, socio-economic and religious backgrounds through contextualization;  (4) show skills in the selection, development and use of a variety of teaching and learning resources, including ICT to address learn`ing goals in the study of literary skills;  (5) demonstrate knowledge of the design, selection, organization and use of diagnostic, formative, summative assessment, project-based assessment and performance -based assessment strategies appropriate for the teaching of literature.