EU 425P

This introductory course investigates current practice and theory related to English language and literacy development including effective assessment, planning, and instruction and implementation of the Ontario Curriculum across the primary/junior level (grades K to 6). The course will focus on the development of requisite knowledge and skills to establish a repertoire of research and evidence-based instructional strategies to support students’ literacy development. The course will consider a broad definition of literacy to examine the literacy practices of our changing world to include how equity, diversity, inclusion, and indigenization practices support and foster a critical orientation to teaching literacy.