READ 4260Reading to Learn 3-5

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Provides and introduces skills, approaches, materials and methods of structured reading for children in grades 3-5. Provides undergraduate students with knowledge and skills to administer formal and informal assessments in determining children’s strengths and weaknesses in areas such as word recognition, vocabulary, reading and writing fluency and reading and writing comprehension. Specific reading strategies such as comparing/contrasting, inferences, predicting, finding the main idea and supporting details are covered in this course. Requires undergraduate students to analyze test results and prescribe reading strategies to help children advance through the reading process. (F,S) Prerequisites: Completion of ESOL 4240, EDUC 4263, EDUC 4261, EDUC 3286, and READ 3260, all with grades of C or above, courses in the professional education program are not available to transient students who have not met the program requirements. Corequisites: EDUC 4251, EDUC 4262, EDUC 4284, and ESOL 4241.