Description
The overall goal of this course is to provide candidates with the knowledge base necessary for appropriate use of diagnostic teaching procedures and materials of reading instruction within the regular classroom, from kindergarten to six grade. 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. Candidates 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.