EXC644A Field Study: Reading and Langu
Course Description
Practical field activities designed to promote and supplement the course goals and outcomes of EXC 644. Students are encouraged to take this field study concurrently with EXC 644. Class will meet the first and last class session of a two-month format. Grading is S or U only.
Learning Outcomes
- Develop an understanding of the reading and language arts needs of children of diverse abilities, languages, cultural backgrounds, learning styles, and interests.
- Assess the characteristics and behaviors of exceptional pupils in terms of their needs in reading and language arts.
- Demonstrate knowledge of readiness, sight words, vocabulary, phonics, structural analysis, context clues, comprehension, study skill techniques, and survival reading skills used with disabled students.
- Develop individualized behavioral and instructional objectives and appropriate instructional processes and strategies relative to reading and language arts.
- Design and utilize pupil performance criteria to evaluate pupil learning and behavior.
- Evaluation of teaching methods, materials and media in terms of efficiency in attaining stated objectives.
- Describe procedures and processes utilized for systematic observation, academic assessment, clinical teaching, and specialized formal assessment procedures for individualized reading and language arts instruction.
- Prepare a reading and language arts case study from assessment data and develop an instruction plan for portfolio entry.
- Describe strategies for teaching reading to students with limited English proficiency and reading difficulties.
- Demonstrate capability with the IRI, a cloze test, and a learning styles analysis.
- Adapt reading instruction using adopted core curriculum materials, phonics, sight words, and the language experience method.
- Demonstrate knowledge of functional reading and writing skills using task analysis, adaptation, augmentation, and age-appropriate activities.
- Demonstrate knowledge of functional reading and writing skills across the curricular domains of vocational, domestic, recreational, and community.
- Expand student skills at the secondary level to include adult functional literacy competence.
