Strategies, Societies, and Technologies Catalog Description:

Diagnostic procedures and materials in reading for teachers in self-contained and departmentalized classrooms from kindergarten through middle school. Field-based activities will be provided in conjunction with ELE 4000. Prerequisites: This course complements ELE 3280 – Developmental Reading in the Elementary School in that it provides future teachers with the skills, strategies, and theories necessary to provide corrective reading instruction within the regular classroom. Course Rationale: The overall goal of this course is to provide future teachers with the knowledge base necessary for appropriate use of diagnostic teaching procedures and materials of reading instruction within the regular classroom, from kindergarten to junior high/middle school. Emphasis will be based on understanding how students learn to read, strategies for improving an individual student’s reading achievement, and how to become an informed diagnostic-prescriptive teacher of reading. Future teachers will be made aware of factors that support student learning or place students “at risk ” and some ways to manage these variables in the regular classroom. Textbooks