ED 418 - Reading and Writing for Adolescents

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This course examines the reading, writing, and thinking connection and strategies that can be used with adolescents. Fiction and nonfiction will be used to develop students’ reading comprehension and writing abilities. In order to facilitate these competencies, this course will focus on appropriate instructional methods, strategies and materials as well as providing experiences, both theoretical and practical in nature. These will enable the pre-service reading teacher to acquire and/or upgrade competencies needed.