EDUC 608 - Teaching Reading and Writing in a Balanced Literacy Classroom

Credit Hours: 3

This course will focus on supporting children to use multiple aspects of literacy, including reading, writing, speaking, and listening to improve their abilities to read and write. Students will learn how to select and use award-winning and multicultural literature, non-fiction, and multimodal texts for children and adolescents as supports for reading, and as mentor texts for learning to compose. Instructional practices for teaching fiction, non-fiction, and multimodal texts to students from a variety of cultural and linguistic backgrounds will be emphasized.