3.00 Credits
Teachers will learn how to present the Montessori language exercises to foster children's early literacy development. Topics of this course include early oral language acquisition, age-appropriate visual and auditory perceptual experiences that lead to phonemic awareness and letter-sound recognition, vocabulary development and enrichment, phonics, word study, beginning handwriting, expressive writing, and the first part of the functions of words. This course meets the SC Read to Succeed requirements. Three semester hours.