Credit Weight: 0.5 Description: Based on a social constructivist, reader response perspective on literacy teaching and learning, students will be introduced to theory and exemplary practices which support the early literacy development of Aboriginal children from birth to age 8. Students will have opportunities to study and address challenges they may encounter as literacy teachers in the development of young children’s oral reading and writing proficiency. They will begin to develop professional knowledge and worldviews, Aboriginal children’s literature and resources and children’s engagement and response through print and multiliteracies. Offering: 3-0; or 3-0 Notes: Restricted to students in the HBEd (Aboriginal Education) program and NTEP students, except with special permission.
