ED 419 - Literacy Assessment and Diagnosis

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This course recognizes the necessity of a reading teacher to possess definite competencies in the planning, teaching, managing, and assessment processes of reading and writing instruction. In order to facilitate these competencies, this course will focus on appropriate assessment methods, diagnosis and instruction. Experiences both theoretical and practical in nature will enable the pre-service reading teacher to acquire and/or upgrade these competencies. Students who preregister for this course and do not earn a grade of “C” or higher in the prerequisite will be administratively withdrawn by the department. This is a placement embedded course; a 48-hour field experience placement in a regionally accredited school is required during the course. Prerequisite(s): ED 413 or ED 418, ED 345 or ED 421 Note(s) Permission from the Clinical Experience Office is required to register.