ED 375 - Literacy Methods AST

This literacy methods course is designed to assist students in understanding the reading and writing 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 a historical, political, theoretical, and practical lens. The course includes review of theoretical models on the processes of literacy and corresponding practical, classroom-based instructional approaches for reading and writing. Students will learn to administer and critique an array of assessments and instructional techniques and strategies for emergent to 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.