Solving Reading Problems of the Urban Learner

Catalog description

This course is designed for the elementary and secondary teacher in an urban setting who encounters significant numbers of remedial and bilingual situations. Selected interrelationships between cultural, social, and psychological characteristics and the reading/language arts process are analyzed. Special emphasis is placed on diagnosis, treatment, methods, and materials needed for positive classroom practices. Current research, which has given indication that specific methods and materials available today seem to have greater chances for increasing learning than those of the past are explored.