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3.00 Credits
College: COLLEGE OF EDUCATION AND HUMAN SERVICES Department: EARLY CHILDHD, ELEM, AND LITERACY EDUCA Credits: 3.00 Language & Literacy. Prerequisites: CURR 210, READ 210, or EDFD 210; CURR 305, READ 305, or EDFD 305; and admission to Teacher Education Program. Corequisites: CURR 314 AND CURR 316. This course is designed to assist pre-service middle and secondary school teachers in developing an awareness of the relationships among cognitive, social, linguistic, and cultural factors and their impact on literacy theory, instruction, and processes. Through work in the field, students will have opportunities to examine topics such as culturally relevant pedagogy, assessing and building prior knowledge, vocabulary development, reading comprehension, writing to learn, new literacies (including technology), and conducting tutorials. Fieldwork or service-learning experience is required. 3 hours lecture.
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3.00 Credits
College: COLLEGE OF EDUCATION AND HUMAN SERVICES Department: EARLY CHILDHD, ELEM, AND LITERACY EDUCA Credits: 3.00 The Nature of Reading. Examines the foundations of reading: the nature of the reading process, readiness, beginning instruction, current practices in the teaching of reading in early childhood and elementary education, a reappraisal of the role of reading in a technological society. 3 hours lecture.
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College: COLLEGE OF EDUCATION AND HUMAN SERVICES Department: EARLY CHILDHD, ELEM, AND LITERACY EDUCA Credits: 3.00 Techniques of Reading Improvement in the Secondary School. Studies the improvement of nonclinical reading difficulties in the content subjects. For the subject area teacher and the beginning reading specialist. Secondary school reading needs and specific suggestions for guiding the slow, average, and gifted student in a classroom situation. 3 hours lecture.
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College: COLLEGE OF EDUCATION AND HUMAN SERVICES Department: EARLY CHILDHD, ELEM, AND LITERACY EDUCA Credits: 3.00 Administration and Supervision of Reading Programs. Prerequisites: READ 500. Explores the more complex aspects of organizing and administering reading programs: theory and techniques of leadership, program development, organization of in-service programs, developing a budget, methods of evaluation, etc. Essential background for reading specialists in order to establish or administer a functional school reading program. 3 hours lecture.
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3.00 Credits
College: COLLEGE OF EDUCATION AND HUMAN SERVICES Department: EARLY CHILDHD, ELEM, AND LITERACY EDUCA Credits: 3.00 Literature for Adolescents. Offers background for the development of recreational reading programs in middle schools and high schools. Literature written for students, as well as literature intended to be read widely by adolescents, criteria for book selection, censorship, role of mass media, minority group identification through books, bibliotherapy, bibliographic tools, and the importance of the librarian. 3 hours lecture.
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3.00 Credits
College: COLLEGE OF EDUCATION AND HUMAN SERVICES Department: EARLY CHILDHD, ELEM, AND LITERACY EDUCA Credits: 3.00 Literacy Needs of Adult Learners. Language learning and related psychological factors; methodology and reading instruction; literature and the reading program and innovations in reading instruction are examined. 3 hours lecture.
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College: COLLEGE OF EDUCATION AND HUMAN SERVICES Department: EARLY CHILDHD, ELEM, AND LITERACY EDUCA Credits: 3.00 Research Seminar in Reading. Prerequisites: Departmental approval. Investigates problems in the field of reading suggested by the educational events and trends, the members of the class, and the educational movements in New Jersey, the country, and the world. Each student will execute an individual research effort. 3 hours seminar.
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3.00 Credits
College: COLLEGE OF EDUCATION AND HUMAN SERVICES Department: EARLY CHILDHD, ELEM, AND LITERACY EDUCA Credits: 3.00 Reading Resources. Reviews software, hardware, multi-media sensory materials available in schools and in adjunct facilities. Philosophical, psychological and academic considerations of reading resources are considered. Materials are demonstrated and assessed. 3 hours lecture.
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3.00 Credits
College: COLLEGE OF EDUCATION AND HUMAN SERVICES Department: EARLY CHILDHD, ELEM, AND LITERACY EDUCA Credits: 3.00 Understanding Reading Comprehension. Provides an understanding of the processing of visible language, particularly the types found in written texts used in educational settings. The instructor will explore with the participants the affective, cognitive, linguistic, pragmatic, and textual variables pertaining to the formulation of meaning in reading. Students will create a conceptual framework for the comprehensibility of written materials in terms of the interaction among the reader, the text, and other pragmatic variables. 3 hours lecture.
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3.00 Credits
College: COLLEGE OF EDUCATION AND HUMAN SERVICES Department: EARLY CHILDHD, ELEM, AND LITERACY EDUCA Credits: 3.00 Critical Thinking and Literacy. Offers a critical thinking framework for the communication arts with an emphasis on reading comprehension, writing, and discussion. Relevant psychological, sociological, and philosophical theories will be studied and applied to texts that are representative of diverse genres and cultures and that challenge conventional beliefs. 3 hours lecture.
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