SCIENCE OF READING II: VOCABULARY, COMPREHENSION, & WRITING INST

Catalog description

This course is about reading and writing instruction across the curriculum. We will examine the processes and skills children and adolescents engage in to comprehend text, develop vocabulary, and compose a quality written product. Specifically, the difficulties encountered by students with language and learning differences will be reviewed and research providing “best practices” in teaching vocabulary, comprehension, and writing as tools for literacy development will be emphasized. Students will develop skills for teaching reading/writing vocabulary, reading comprehension, and writing process/products. Students will develop personal philosophies and instructional strategies for the development and fluency skills involved in written composition”