EDUC 8135 - Working with the Struggling Reader

3 cr.

This course is designed to give the special education and reading professional research-based background knowledge of the reading process, including reading abilities and disabilities, and reading approaches that include the consideration of motivation and engagement within all the components of the language arts curriculum. This course will focus on helping teachers develop an ability to design and plan effective teaching that will result in comprehensive literacy program for struggling readers of all ages. Students will demonstrate competency in developing and modifying lesson plans as well as reading instruction programs for students with diverse educational and/or cultural needs by assessing, evaluating, designing and implementing a clinical intervention with one student that will require one-to-one tutoring sessions totaling a minimum of two hours a week.