0 or 3 credits
Fall 2025 Lecture Upper Division
This course prepares teacher candidates to select, evaluate, and integrate children's literature and media in K-6 classrooms. Focusing on high-quality, diverse texts and media, candidates will learn to choose materials that are developmentally appropriate and reflect the diversity of the world in which we live. Emphasis will be placed on the critical role literature and media play in fostering vocabulary development, enhancing critical thinking skills, and supporting literacy development across subjects. The course will focus on how K-6 students learn to use comprehension strategies independently and efficiently as they progress through elementary school fostering both their academic growth and their ability to engage with diverse texts.
Learning Outcomes1Integrate literature and media into content area lessons to enhance vocabulary (including academic language skills), critical thinking, and comprehension.
2Select and evaluate three trade books to read aloud during a math, a social studies, and a science lesson.
3Identify instructional strategies supported by the Science of Reading that teach k-6 students' academic language skills, vocabulary knowledge, and reading and listening comprehension.
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