EDU 618 Advanced Literacy Strategies I
The components of this course include becoming aware of the diversity of teaching styles, learning expectations, and reading styles and needs of students in the P-12 setting, as well as the critical need for quality literacy instruction in our local, state, and national context. Emphasis in this course is focused on the science of teaching reading. Phonemic awareness, phonics and vocabulary and the emphasis of instruction, as well as the course practicum. In addition, students will be asked to articulate and defend the components of structured literacy, justifying research based instructional best practices for each component of literacy.