Center for Professional Studies: Foundation for Literacy Reading Aloud, Storytelling & Writing

Fitchburg State College/Words That Cook, LLC
A Foundation for Literacy: Reading Aloud, Storytelling & Writing

Location: Distance Education
Start Date: Rolling Enrollment

This course is designed for early childhood, elementary and middle school teachers, prospective teachers and other professionals who seek to foster children's literacy development. Individual course modules focus on: reading aloud, storytelling, planning lessons that support literacy standards and writing. Students become familiar with learning styles and multiple intelligences, apply what they learn through multisensory teaching, reflect on the results and assess their progress. They are guided by the textbook (Read it Aloud! A parent’s guide to sharing books with young children by Monty Haas and Laurie Joy Haas), expert audio files, instructional DVDs, Web resources and assignment-specific rubrics. Assignments throughout the course are completed with one or more children. Students pursuing 3 Undergraduate credits are required to complete additional coursework beyond those pursuing PDP's and students pursuing 3 Graduate credits are required to complete additional coursework beyond those pursuing the Undergraduate credits. There are no prerequisites for the course.

To utilize the course documents and instructional media and to accomplish assignments, students will need access to: a computer with CD-ROM and sound capabilities, Internet and e-mail access and Adobe® Reader® (free download available); a full-sized audiocassette recorder with a built-in microphone and a DVD player or a computer with a DVD player.

• Date:  Rolling enrollment; course sections begin on the 1st of each month; students have three months to complete coursework
• Course Numbers:  For 3 Undergraduate credits – Schedule number 11117 (Fall), 30005 (Spring); Course Number PDEV2001
• Course Numbers: For 3 Graduate credits – Schedule number 11109 (Fall), 30002 (Spring); Course Number PDEV6865
• Course Numbers: For 45 PDPs - Schedule number 11111 (Fall), 30004 (Spring); Course Number PDEV6865P
• Instructors: Susan Minichiello/Miriam Marecek

Registration and payment are facilitated through Words That Cook, LLC. For additional course information and to register, visit www.wordsthatcook.org/marketpl/fflcourse.html.