Must sign up with Reading Department secretary one semester prior to registration and have completed 20-24 credits. A laboratory course focusing on instructional strategies for teaching reading and language arts to children with reading difficulties. Students work directly with children. Students plan and conduct developmental, remedial and corrective instruction under supervision of the instructor. Teachers observe, record, analyze, and modify the reading and writing behavior of children.
Teachers develop understandings of the theoretical underpinnings of reading acquisition.
May be repeated for a maximum of 10 credits. A written research or project proposal must be prepared and approved by a faculty adviser before work is initiated. Work must be completed at least two weeks before the end of classes in the semester of graduation. This course is designed as the first course in the program leading to the Ph.D. in Reading and Language Arts. The content of the course will focus on a general overview of educational research with special emphasis on orienting students to the nature of reading and language arts research, searching reading and language arts literature, and initiating individual doctoral research.