Nov 22, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2020-21

ECEE 4400 - Actively Engaging and Teaching with Literature and Storytelling Across Content Areas


This course introduces candidates to a wide variety of diverse literature appropriate for use with P-5 learners. Candidates learn how to actively engage students across grade levels and content areas with texts of various styles, genres, and purposes and develop instruction that meaningfully incorporates storytelling, listening, speaking, reading, writing, and viewing.

Requisites: Advanced Standing, 2.75 GPA, and (ECEE 3003 concurrent or Child Development major)
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
  • Students will be able to articulate the role of literature in the acquisition of literacy.
  • Students will be able to articulate the value of literature for all children.
  • Students will be able to select award-winning children’s literature that represents the diversity of students in the P-5 classroom.
  • Students will be able to employ motivational instructional techniques for utilizing literature in P-5 classrooms.


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