EDUC 431 - Reading/Language Arts Methods

4 hours
Prerequisites: EDUC 260 - may be concurrent enrollment; admission to teacher education.
A course designed to prepare prospective elementary teachers to help children in grades K-8 develop their English language and reading and writing skills. Emphasis is placed upon methods of teaching in the following areas of communication: oral language, listening, writing (composition and creative writing), mechanics of writing, handwriting, spelling, reading and children’s literature. Other important areas to be studied include language development, schema theory, metacognitive theory, the relationship between reading and the language arts, teacher modeling, assessment, lesson planning, and classroom management and organization. Students will also learn how professionals progress from theory and research into practice in the elementary classroom.