Strategies for Teaching Students with Reading/Language Arts Difficulties

3 credits · Graduate

249A is closely related to and dependent upon 249B. 249A examines the development of curricula in reading and the language arts that addresses the strengths and weaknesses determined in the assessment process developed in 249B. Emphases include: formal and informal assessment procedures in reading for majority/minority populations, diagnostic teaching (including issues of cultural diversity,) individual and group instructional strategies for scaffolding learning, including cooperative learning/interactivae strategies, and thematic instruction, content area reading strategies, and parent involvement. The class explores theoretical models of language acquisition and models of bilingual education.