CURR 505 - Reading Play: Play-based Literacy Instruction in Early Childhood and Beyond

Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0

This class focuses on the impacts of play-based instruction, students will explore the connections between play and learning and development, and learn how play makes learning relevant and engaging. Students will examine current research and standards on play, learn to observe and scaffold play, and develop a play based literacy instruction initiative. Core texts include Purposeful Play: A Teacher’s Guide to Igniting Deep and Joyful Learning Across the Day (Mraz, Porcelli & Tyler, 2016) and Let the Children Play: How More Play Will Save Our Schools and Help Children Thrive (Sohlberg & Doyle, 2019), and The Playful Classroom: The Power of Play for All Ages. (Dearbury & Jones, 2020). Students will explore online and community play spaces, and become adept at integrating play into literacy and content-area instruction to enhance student achievement and motivation. Summer Session (Online)

Prerequisite(s): None
Corequisite(s): None
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): None