READ 5453 - Advanced Middle Grades English Language Arts (4-8)

(2 credits)

Prerequisites: Admission to teacher education MAT students ONLY. Corequisites: EDFN 5420, READ 5452. This course is designed to prepare the candidate for the English Language Arts classroom at middle grade education levels (4-8). It will be a course that allows for synthesis of what has been learned, in all prior courses, as the candidate develops and progresses as a professional educator. Various instructional strategies and assessments of learning will be explored within the framework of the classroom, the school, and the modern world as places where communities of learners live and interact. These will include selecting, planning, and organizing materials for instruction, integrating the English Language Arts with other content fields and technology, focusing instruction that addresses state and national standards, and utilizing performance-based assessment in the classroom. (spring)

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