ELE ED 3339: Intermediate Literacy Instruction and Assessment in Inclusive Settings

Course Description

The course develops teacher candidates’ theoretical understandings and pedagogical applications of the processes for teaching and assessing literacy from grades 3-6. Candidates examine, plan, enact, and reflect on curriculum, instruction, and assessment of advanced phonics, reading comprehension, morphology, syntax, vocabulary, fluency, and writing. The course focuses on differentiating instruction for academically, culturally, and linguistically diverse students, building students’ background knowledge through textual inquiry, designing reading and writing workshops, and building motivation as readers and writers. This course requires clinical experience with a 3-6 grade student.