EDUC 3338 Assessing and Assisting Effective Reading in the Classroom

This course is designed to provide future classroom teachers with knowledge of reading- related problems and their causes and to develop their abilities to use instructional strategies appropriately. Emphasis is placed on informal diagnosis and interpretation of reading abilities based on individual case studies and implications for classroom settings. There will be 15 hours of directed field experiences embedded into this course. A pre-service certificate is required for this course.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

(EDEC 3331/EDMG 3331 (EDEC 331) is a prerequisite and EDUC 1199 (EDUC 199) is a prerequisite or corequisite. This course has a field experience component.

Student Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, the candidate will be able to:

1. Recognize widely-accepted reasons for reading difficulties.
2. Administer an informal reading inventory.
3. Refer to the IRA/NCTE standards for assistance in assessing reading and writing.
4. Interpret findings from an informal reading inventory to discover reader’s strengths and weakness for planning appropriate lessons for students.
5. Relate a child’s success or lack of success in learning to read to environmental, health influences, and/or lack of parental support.
6. Use established quantitative and qualitative testing procedures to measure reading performance and ability.
7. Establish an understanding of what occurs during reading by observing and collecting relevant instructional data on student performance during reading lessons.
8. Demonstrate knowledge and skills of effective ways to organize and manage reading instruction in the classroom environment for all students including diverse learners and children from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds. 
9. Demonstrate knowledge of various remediation strategies which would facilitate reading development.
10. Examine and evaluate reading technology as a differentiated approach to reading instruction.
11. Produce structured components of a professional case study with appropriate scaffolding.
12. Survey and evaluate instructional materials for reading using readability formulas.
13. Explore and analyze the state standards to produce appropriate instruction for children.
14. Utilize formative and summative literacy assessments.