Teaching Reading Courses

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TEC 661. Assessment and Intervention with Struggling Readers (3 units)
Topics in this course will include the planning and delivery of appropriate reading and writing instruction based on formal and informal assessment of students. Students will develop a knowledge base for selection, use and interpretation of reading and writing assessment instruments for students, including English language learners, and students with reading disabilities and difficulties.

TEC 662. Tutoring Practicum: Primary Level (1 unit)
This course provides supervised field experience that enables MATR students to integrate reading theory and practice regarding assessment and intervention strategies for struggling readers. Tutoring fieldwork will include individualized reading instruction for both primary and intermediate level students. Course requires tutoring fieldwork during the Fall and Spring semesters of the academic year.

TEC 663. Tutoring Practicum: Intermediate Level (1 unit)
Prerequisites: TEC - 664, TEC - 668. This course provides supervised field experience that enables MATR students to integrate reading theory and practice regarding assessment and intervention strategies for struggling readers. Tutoring fieldwork will include individualized reading instruction for both primary and intermediate level students. Course requires tutoring fieldwork during the Fall and Spring semesters of the academic year.

TEC 664. Developing Fluent Readers (2 units)
Topics in this course include research-based skills and knowledge about instructional strategies for developing fluent reading in students at all grade levels, including speakers of English and English Language Learners. Areas to be examined include phonemic awareness; phonics/linguistics, including the phonological and morphological structure of the English Language; decoding/word attack strategies, including systematic instruction in sound symbol relationship; decodable text; and spelling instruction.

TEC 668. Teaching Comprehension Strategies (3 units)
This course will cover topics on current research-based skills and knowledge about reading comprehension, including foundational skills in academic language, background knowledge, concept formation and vocabulary development. Course will emphasize skills for teaching comprehension and study strategies, including narrative and expository text structure analysis; thinking strategies, such as inference, summarization, predicting, questioning, and clarifying and independent reading. Students will acquire experience with concepts and practice relating to comprehension strategies.

TEC 670. Issues in Reading Research: Theories and Practice (3 units)
This course will examine traditional and current research theories and research-based practice pertaining to how students learn to read; the structure of the English language, second language acquisition; relationships among language, spelling, reading and writing; and psychological and sociolinguistic aspects of reading and writing. In addition relevant research and theories pertaining to assessment and evaluation will be examined.

TEC 671. Reading Practicum: Supervised Field Experiences (3 units)
This course provides supervised field experience that enables students to integrate reading theory, practice, assessment and evaluation. Fieldwork will include work with beginning readers, English Language Learners, and students with reading difficulties. Students will be engaged in assessment of struggling readers at early and intermediate levels of reading acquistion. Also required will be tutoring or small group instruction of struggling readers at two or more reading levels.