ED 375 - Literacy Methods

This reading methods course is designed to assist students in understanding the literacy acquisition process in both theory and practice at the elementary level. It focuses on current, accepted, research-based theoretical models and reviews language arts from historical, political, theoretical, and practical lenses. The course includes review of theoretical models on the processes of literacy and corresponding practical, classroom-based instructional approaches for literacy. Students will learn to administer and critique an array of assessments, instructional techniques, and strategies for emergent and developing readings/writers. A required 30-hour clinical experience is an integral part of this course.

Four credits.

Prerequisite(s): ED 240 and ED 340.