READING INSTRUCTION FOR INDIVIDUALS & SMALL GROUPS:ELEMENTARY/ADOLESCENT

Catalog description

This course is designed to provide prospective literacy teachers with pedagogical practices including but not limited to assessments, methodologies, strategies, and frameworks for teaching childhood and adolescent learners as individuals and in small groups. This course develops candidates' abilities to provide developmentally-appropriate instruction in the areas of small group reading strategies and the reading-writing process/connection. The focus of the course is on designing instruction for individuals or small groups that addresses children's areas of instructional need while utilizing their specific literacy strengths. During this course, candidates spend 15+ hours at their literacy field experience placement sites (one K-5 and the other 6-12) engaging in classroom observation and practicing a small group instruction strategy at each placement.