Università Roma Tre

Design, organize and evaluate measures for promotion, entertainment and reading comprehension and enjoyment of reading in childcare services; understand the cognitive, affective and emotional components involved in reading; assess the quality of the books in relation to children’s cognitive development; build reading comprehension tests on different types of text; understand the variety of reading practices in multimedia environments and conduct shared reading experiences for early childhood; become better aware of the relationship between reading, writing, listening, telling and building of personal identity; communicate effectively, face to face and through the network with colleagues of the course, with the tutors and the teacher.


By the study of "Didactics of Reading" the student will be able to achieve the following training objectives.

Knowledge and understanding
- understand the cognitive, affective and emotional components involved in reading;
- understand the variety of reading practices in multimedia environments and conduct shared reading experiences for early childhood.
Applying knowledge and understanding
- design, organize and evaluate measures for promotion, entertainment and reading comprehension and enjoyment of reading in childcare services;
- build reading comprehension tests on different types of text.
Making judgements
- assess the quality of the books in relation to children’s cognitive development;
- become better aware of the relationship between reading, writing, listening, telling and building of personal identity.
Communication skills
- communicate effectively, face to face and through the network with colleagues of the course, with the tutors and the teacher;
- share readings, considerations, personal or produced in the working group papers.
Learning skills
- be able to observe the contexts in which they operate and reflect critically on the dynamics that characterize them;
- be able to collaborate on the development of an online learning “narrative community” that makes more meaningful the understanding of the topics covered.