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Virginia Tech

EDCI-5414: Theory and Practice for Early Literacy Instruction (PK-3)

Description: Examines language development and early literacy teaching and learning. Explores a wide range of current theories and practices including phonics based and meaning based approaches to teaching. Attends to how curriculum, instruction, and assessment reflect differing agendas for literacy and schooling and different definitions of literacy. I.

Pathways: N/A

Course Hours: 3 credits

Prerequisites: N/A

Required By: EDCI-5424

Corequisites: N/A

Crosslist: N/A

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 11

Average GPA: 3.97 (rounds to A)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 96.00%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 0.00%

Staff Fogelsong2021100.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.993
Donna J Fortune2024100.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%4.005
Heidi A Mesmer202292.9%7.1%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.923

Grade Distribution Over Time

1234GPA
Summer I 2019Summer I 2020Summer I 2021Fall 2022Summer I 2023Summer I 2024Term050% W