LED 462. Literacy Across the Curriculum

3.00
Accurate decoding is a necessary but not sufficient condition for the true goal of reading: comprehension. Skills for comprehension may predate decoding, may develop simultaneously with decoding skill and may be fine-tuned long after students are experienced decoders. This is a course that explores how students comprehend and learn with text and how teachers assist them in these processes. Pre-service teachers will expand their repertoire of instructional strategies for supporting student literacy development beyond decoding, understanding that fluency is a necessary but not sufficient skill for comprehension to occur. Participants will explore the nature and meaning of comprehension through purposeful, student-centered teaching and learning. This class is built on the understanding that students are given material on their instructional reading level in order for comprehension to take place and that students are engaged and interactive with the text. Current research will frame the exploration, modeling and practice of effective instruction, with an emphasis on the social constructivist perspective of literacy development. Prerequisite: LED 366 and LED 436 .