0 to 3 credits
Fall 2025 Lecture Upper Division
This course is an undergraduate, elementary education course designed to provide preservice teachers with classroom and practicum experiences focused on literacy instruction for children experiencing difficulty learning to read and write. Students learn to administer and analyze individual assessments to determine the strengths and needs of a struggling reader/writer and set intervention goals based on these results. Application of appropriate research-based reading instructional strategies for developing (structured literacy instruction) phonological awareness, phonics, comprehension, vocabulary, and fluency is the focus of weekly literacy teaching in local elementary schools.
Learning Outcomes1Demonstrate the importance of providing instruction to meet the needs of all children through their teaching.
2Implement a framework for assessment and instruction that allows the teacher to evaluate and adjust for an optimal match between the reader/writer, the text and the literacy context.
3Translate assessment findings into a plan for instructional support that is realistic in view of the child's needs and the available resources.
4Use assessment as an ongoing guide to instructional decisions.
5Become skillful in observing, planning, implementing, and evaluating literacy lessons.
6Demonstrate knowledge of materials, procedures, and strategies for individual and group literacy instruction.
7Examine a range of assessment and evaluation tools and strategies.
8Report to others their assessments of students' literacy learning.
9Work as a team with peers and school personnel.
Prerequisites
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