EDUC 553 - Literacy Middle Level Learners

3 Credits

This course is designed to introduce the literacy process as it relates to children in the intermediate and middle school grades. The theory, knowledge, and teaching skills pertaining to the nature of the process will be explored by lecture, active participation, and classroom experience. This course includes reviews of current theory and research in language, cognition, and literacy. Literacy incorporates reading, writing, speaking, listening, and visual representation. Responding to literature, reading comprehension, fluency, word identification strategies, language systems and assessment forms will be a significant part of this course. This course also emphasizes the reading materials and reading in the content areas, will be surveyed. Inherent in the scope of the course is the nature of linguistic, learners’ abilities and cultural variations as these factors relate to literacy learning. One of the underpinning goals is to prepare the student to think like a middle level teacher. Spring. (Undergraduate cognate: EDUC 333).

Prerequisite: QPA of 2.70; EDUC 501, EDUC 503, EDUC 507, EDUC 540.2 and EDUC 544; WRIT 100 or FYS; passing scores on PPST or PAPA Reading, Writing and Mathematics.
Credit Type Code: Letter Grade