Reading Specializations

Emergent Literacy (12 Credits)

This specialization is open to students majoring or minoring in Early Childhood Education who wish to gain more in-depth knowledge about young children's oral language development and their interactions with reading and writing.

Requirements

I. Required Core:

CEDUC 3395	Literature for Children	3
CEDUC 3420	Language Arts, Social Studies and Technology	3
CEDUC 3702	Junior Practicum and Seminar in Early Childhood Education	3
EECLD 6002	Essential Linguistics: What Every Teacher Needs to Know about Language	3

Teaching Reading (12 Credits)

This specialization provides in-depth training in the teaching of reading. Graduates in this area are well qualified to assume instructional responsibilities for the teaching of reading and language arts in self-contained classrooms or in team teaching situations. Students must achieve a grade of B or higher in all coursework taken for this specialization.

Requirements

I. Required Core:

CEDUC 2401	Literacy Learning	3
CSPED 3300	Developing Accessible Instruction for Struggling Readers and Writers	3

Choose ONE (3 Credits):

CEDUC 2402	Content Area Reading in Grades 5-12	3
EEDUC 6101	Content Literacy	3
EEDUC 6402	Clay's Observation Survey of Early Literacy Achievement	2-3

Choose ONE (3 Credits):

CEDUC 3395	Literature for Children	3
CEDUC 3415	Teaching Language Arts and Literature	3