Planning for instruction that supports children's, language and literacy development from Pre-K, through the middle grades. Focus is on, theoretical foundations of literacy, meaning, construction across-symbol systems, early reading, and writing behavior, meaning centered, instructional practices, and knowledge and, instructional practices relating to word, recognition skills and comprehension processes., Includes a wide range of culturally responsive, practices, assessment approaches, and materials, to promote literacy learning, as well as the, concept of media literacy. Children's literature, will be integrated as it pertains to the content, of this course.