EDUC 754B - Secondary/Middle/K-12 School Reading

2 hours
The middle school and secondary education teacher candidate will develop the understanding that the reading process is a broad continuum ranging from emergent literacy to reading across the curriculum in content areas. The course is designed to assist the candidate in recognizing literacy problems and offering strategies that will aid middle, secondary, and K-12 students in their quest to become skillful in the areas of reading. The foundational instructional approaches feature a broad scope of the knowledge of strategies for teaching including: fluency, text comprehension, vocabulary development, and reading-writing in specialized content areas for advanced readers. The candidate must complete Field Experience III and Field Experience IV by the conclusion of this course. GR