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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 Teaching of Communication Skills. The role of communication skills is of major importance in the learning process. Every teacher should be aware of the abilities, limitations, and needs of students in speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Adaptations in curricula, assignments, and procedures to the levels of students in a classroom; remedial measures. Speech, reading and English instructors involved in course. Open to M.A.T. and certification students only. 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 Field Experience in Reading. Prerequisites: Departmental approval. Provides students opportunities to observe, participate and report community-based activities of agencies. For students in long-range research, students with limited teaching experience, and students who need additional field and clinical experience. Independent study.
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3.00 Credits
College: COLLEGE OF EDUCATION AND HUMAN SERVICES Department: EARLY CHILDHD, ELEM, AND LITERACY EDUCA Credits: 3.00 Case Studies of Reading Difficulties. Prerequisites: READ 500. Offers opportunities to learn the techniques for diagnosing reading difficulties, evaluating the most frequently used tests and inventories, and the testing of a child with reading problems. Group and individual tests, survey and diagnostic tests, standardized and informal tests. and reporting to parents, schools and agencies are discussed. The course develops skills in diagnosing and ameliorating reading problems. Additional diagnostic hours arranged. 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 Seminar in Reading Disabilities. Examines significant problems in the field of reading disability. Historical and emerging models used in reading diagnosis are discussed. 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 Supervised Clinical Practicum, Part I. Prerequisites: READ 511. Corequisites: READ 514. For advanced students and specialists involved in some aspect of remedial instruction. Investigates and interprets serious reading problems, causes of reading difficulties, and techniques of remedial and corrective treatment. Clients are drawn from children in surrounding communities. Additional tutoring hours will be arranged. 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 Supervised Clinical Practicum, Part II. Prerequisites: READ 511. Corequisites: READ 513. For advanced students and specialists involved in some aspect of remedial instruction. Examines selection and adaptation of suitable improvement devices, materials and ideas; intensive treatment in a practicum situation. Clients are drawn from children in the surrounding communities. Additional tutoring hours will be arranged. 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 Language and Early Literacy Development. This course examines the nature of language, communication, and literacy development in children of diverse backgrounds and abilities during the foundational early childhood period from birth through age five. Students explore how children acquire language in social context and the impact of biological, psycholinguistic, and sociocultural factors on language development in both typically and atypically developing children. Students examine the relationships between language skills and emergent literacy, and the role of parents, teachers and other caregivers in helping prepare children to successfully acquire school-based Literacies. Students explore state and national policies that seek to improve preschool supports for language and early literacy development and the impact of increasing linguistic and cultural diversity on early childhood language arts/literacy education. 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 History of Literacy and Media. Prerequisites: READ 500 or READ 501 or instructor's permission. This course examines literacy evolutions through physical innovations from cuneiform to the printing press to the internet, educational initiatives from the tutor system to mandated public education to No Child Left Behind, and historical eras from ancient to modern to post-modern. This course will run as a seminar co-developed by the professor and students. This class engages students in learning the history of literacy and literacy pedagogy and, through that, wrestling with issues of discourse, culture, theory, and practice in education and society - both as practicing or potential teachers and as scholars. Topics covered include: development of literacy as related to the printing press, literacy definitions and educational policy, new media and new Literacies, and issues of literacy and power in educational settings. 3 hours lecture.
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8.00 Credits
College: COLLEGE OF EDUCATION AND HUMAN SERVICES Department: EARLY CHILDHD, ELEM, AND LITERACY EDUCA Credits: 3.00 Teaching Multiethnic Literature in P-8 Classrooms. This graduate-level course is designed to assist in-service teachers and school media specialists in their efforts to examine multiethnic children's literature as both aesthetic forms and pedagogical tools. Students will analyze the social, political, and educational implications of such literature and its use in P-8 classrooms. If teachers and school media specialists introduce powerful, but enjoyable, literary pieces through which they explore the topics of race and ethnicity and ask critical questions, children might have a greater chance of living up to democratic principles and becoming active participants in the global community. This course will help teachers to use multiethnic children's literature more frequently in their respective classrooms and to approach that responsibility with confidence. 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 Literacies, Digital Technology and Learning. This course is designed to provide a context in which pre-service and in-service teachers can explore a range of "new" Literacies and the implications of these new Literacies for school-based literacy education. This course comprises a theoretical dimension that focuses on literacy as a social practice, and a practical dimension that includes hands-on use of a range of new digital technologies and new literacy practices. Attention will be paid to developing effective ways of taking up new Literacies in classroom contexts. 3 hours lecture.
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