Teaching First Reading and Writing (SOEG303)
Reading and its importance, listening, speaking, visual reading and visual presentation; reading, writing fields and their interrelation, characteristics of Turkish language and their influence on first reading and writing; reading and writing teaching approaches, aims and principles of teaching first reading and writing, basic characteristics of first grader students and teachers in terms of teaching first reading and writing; readiness (student) and preparation (teacher) for first reading and writing, failure in teaching first reading and writing and its reasons, equipment used in teaching first reading and writing (features, selection, creation and use of the equipment); methods implemented in teaching first reading and writing (definitions, features, classifications, implementations, superiorities and limits of the methods); sound based sentence method (definition, principles, features, stages and implementation), reading and writing teaching practices in accordance with the stages of sound based sentence method, improving vocabulary, evaluation of first reading and writing, teaching first reading and writing and technology use