This course focuses on essential topics in literacy development in fourth through sixth-grade children, including spelling, syntax, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, composition, and speaking and listening, and addresses the whole learner with specific attention to cognitive, physical, behavioral, social, and emotional needs. This course addresses diverse learners within an engaged learning environment as well as curricular resources and design, assessment tools and interventions, instructional approaches, and technology. Field Component: 15 hours in grades 4-6. Prerequisite(s): EDUC 301.