Teaching Elementary Reading I

EDUC 311 is designed to introduce students to reading theories as they apply to elementary classrooms from pre-K to grades 4-6. Students will study and critique various approaches to the teaching of reading, from direct phonics instruction to whole language, in order to develop their own balanced approaches to the teaching and learning of reading. Methods and materials for teaching and learning reading, current issues and recent developments in the field will be stressed. Demonstrations and applications of strategies, such as Interactive Reading and Teaching Phonics in Context, will provide practical experiences for students in the course. Students will be required to conduct three classroom observations where they will reflect critically on the connections between the observed phenomena and what they are learning in the course. Students will develop and draft a Statement of Philosophy for the Teaching and Learning of Reading.

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