Curricular Unit:			Code:
Promotion of Literacy in Children and Adolescents with Special Needs			1095PLCA
Year:	Level:	Course:	Credits:
2	CTSP	Support for Children and Adolescents with Special Needs	4 ects
Learning Period:		Language of Instruction:	Total Hours:
Winter Semester		Portuguese/English	52
Learning Outcomes of the Curricular Unit:
1. Understand the foundations for learning written language and literacy. 2. Know the processes involved in the production and understanding of spoken and written language 3. To know the skills, strategies and activities that facilitate reading and writing learning
Syllabus:
1. Speech, language and linguistic knowledge. 2. Relationship between orality and writing 3. Emerging literacy and pathothes of reading and writing 4. Different approaches in reading and writing 5. Reading and Writing Disorders 6. Literacy-promoting strategies and activities 7. Selection of books and short stories appropriate to the characteristics of the child/adolescents
Demonstration of the Syllabus Coherence with the Curricular Unit's Objectives:
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Teaching Methodologies (Including Evaluation):
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Demonstration of the Coherence between the Teaching Methodologies and the Learning Outcomes:
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Reading:
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Lecturer (* Responsible):
Vânia Peixoto (vpeixoto@ufp.edu.pt)