Measurement skills are mastered and instructional frameworks and methods are introduced. University students learn to assess readers' strengthss and weaknesses, analyze learners' needs, then write preliminary case-study reports including recommendations and plans for instuclional assistance. University students conduct a case study with one student and then continue to tutor the same student in ED 6360. This course builds on ED 6350. Students develop instructional plans for building on their students reading and writing strengths as they assist students to acquire skills and strategies that will enable them to become more confident, independent readers and writers.
Students learn researdled based instructional strategies for remediating reading problems.
This course indudes a supervised practicum. The critical connection between writing and reading is experienced. Students think and live like a writer as they begin to find great writing ideas among books read and treasures stored in their writer's notebook. A major goal of this course is to invite teachers to find a multitude of reasons to read and write throughout their lifetime. Using the writing process teadhers create and publish original works in our class anthology.