Literacy in the Content Areas for Childhood Teachers

Catalog description

The goals of this course are to assist the teacher candidates in understanding problems, approaches and resources necessary to teach reading, reading skills, diagnosing and applying remedial and enrichment techniques in the preschool, elementary and early middle grades. The teacher candidates will be presented with a practical and theoretical framework on which integrated language arts/reading instruction can be built, with special emphasis on technology tools and personal experiences to enhance language arts/reading instruction. In-depth studies will be experienced in the areas of whole language, basal readers, balanced literacy and guided reading. Through teacher-generated and student-generated topics, students will evince extended reading/writing assignments that will require research in interpersonal skills, diversified learning styles, the writing process and child development as they relate to the reading/writing process.