Spring 2027

Foundations of Language and Reading Instruction in Elementary Education

Foundations of Language and Reading Instruction covers literacy learning strategies for reading, writing, comprehending, and decoding, focusing on developmental processes for competent readers and writers.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Aloura PearsonAngela LakeLeah Duran

Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2026: 3.86 GPA, 93.0% A/AB (n=115 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Recognize the complex nature of early literacy learning processes, including the ways that cultural, linguistic, racial, and ethnic diversity shape these processes.

  • Situate diversity as a core asset in early literacy instructional planning, teaching, and selecting texts and materials.

  • Explain the centrality of language to literacy learning and identify instructional approaches and materials that support listening, speaking, viewing, and representing skills of young learners.

  • Articulate the multiple dimensions of reading development, including concepts of print, phonological awareness, phonics, word recognition, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.

  • Demonstrate knowledge of instructional approaches that support early reading instruction and understand the strengths and limitations of various informal and formal assessments.

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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Declared in Elementary Education BSE or Elementary Education and Special Education BSE

    • Declared in Elementary Education BSE
    • Elementary Education and Special Education BSE
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CURRIC 346

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    • Declared in Elementary Education BSE
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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 650
LEC 002Classroom Instruction0 / 200

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2026: 3.86 GPA, 93.0% A/AB (n=115 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Reading, writing, comprehending, and decoding
  • Developmental processes for becoming competent readers and writers
  • Cultural, linguistic, racial, and ethnic diversity in early literacy learning
  • Dimensions of reading development: print, phonological awareness, phonics, word recognition, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension

Skills

  • Instructional strategies to support literacy learning
  • Early literacy instructional planning, teaching, and selecting texts and materials
  • Identifying instructional approaches and materials for listening, speaking, viewing, and representing skills
  • Knowledge of early reading instruction and assessment strengths and limitations

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1280 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

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Sources & history

UW–Madison

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CURRIC 346 · Spring 2027

Foundations of Language and Reading Instruction in Elementary Education

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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