Requires field hours in the public schools and community services. This course is designed for exploration by the student in the basic reading and related language arts abilities and skills, with the emphasis on a continuum of strategies. Includes field projects in the public schools. This course emphasizes the subject matter, materials and methods of teaching and learning the various forms of literature suitable for children at the P-5 levels. Students will become acquainted with the best books through wide reading and interpretive study.
Attention is given to evaluation and use of current materials and media.
This course focuses on theories, research, and methodology associated with reading and language arts from primary through the fifth grades, with attention to the concepts of whole language, phonemic awareness, and balanced approah to the teaching of reading. This course emphasizes the use and critique of theories of the reading process and diagnostic approaches for assisting in the improvement of reading proficiency. Emphasis is placed on the use of holistic assessment technologies and their relationships to theories of readig processes. This course is intended for the P-5 teacher and is taken in conjunction with ED 630 and Ed 640. Emphasis is placed on the relationships between language development and learning to read with special attention to the practical application of reasearch and theory in the classroom of the graduate student.