ED 507G - Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment in Reading and Language Arts

Credits: 4

This course focuses on the fundamental principles that inform research-based literacy and reading instruction as defined by the National Reading Panel Report (NRPR), No Child Left Behind. The five areas defined as key to the foundation of reading include phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and text comprehension instruction. In this course, these areas of study are used as a basic framework from which to address several other topics including assessment (formal and informal), models of reading (cognitive, linguistic, psycholinguistic), best practice, the use of literature and basal-based instruction, the writing process, teaching linguistically diverse students, and the developmental stages of reading, writing and spelling. The course offers students a comprehensive knowledge base to support and extend reading and language arts instruction.