EDU 350: STRAT READING SEC CLASSROOM

This course will address general and specific guidelines for teaching reading to adolescents of diverse academic backgrounds. Through research, field application, and reflection, teacher candidates will explore literacy as it relates to the engagement, diversity, and special needs of the academically diverse adolescent. This course will examine how to integrate a balanced approach to literacy instruction that promotes differentiation of content, instructional practices, and assessment products while encouraging student choice and meeting individual student needs. This course provides instruction in reading theory and methodology and will provide an understanding of strategic reading instruction that can be used with large or small group instruction. Candidates will learn how to balance all components of reading instruction – assessment, word analysis (structural analysis, vocabulary), comprehension, and writing – to facilitate construction of meaning and academic success. Prerequisite: Stage I Admission to PSOE