Reading Education (EDRD)
Graduate School of Education
300 Literacy and Curriculum Integration for
Specialist Teachers (3:3:0). Provides a research-based
introduction to K12 content area reading, writing, and
language arts. Emphasizes the integration of reading and other
language arts across the curriculum. Field experience in
public schools is required. Note: This course is intended as
an introduction to educational issues and is not applicable
in Mason's graduate-level teacher education programs.
301 Facilitating Literacy in School or Community
Settings (3:3:0). Corequisite: Requires 45 clock hours
of school-based field experience during course.
Provides background knowledge, teaching strategies, and support for
students who wish to work with developing readers and
writers in school or community settings. Emphasizes
implementation strategies that foster and enrich literacy
development; incorporation of trade books and technology resources
into individual and small group work; and reflection on
work as a literacy facilitator. Field experience in public
schools is required.
500 In-Service Educational Development
(1-6:0:0). See EDUC 500.
597 Special Topics in Education (3:3:0). See EDUC 597.
614 Teaching Reading in the Secondary School
(3:3:0). Emphasizes reading and writing in content areas;
reading/writing causes, classroom diagnosis, and remediation
of reading problems; study skills; and rates of reading.
615 Teaching Reading/Writing in
Multicultural/Multilingual Settings (3:3:0). Develops instructional
competencies in reading/writing approaches for students
from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
Examines teaching reading/writing across the
curriculum,
biliteracy acquisition, historical and current
reading/writing approaches for second language learners,
preliteracy skills for younger and older English language learners,
and special issues in developmental and diagnostic reading
for language minority students.
619 Literacy in Content Areas (3:3:0).
Prerequisites: Methods I (EDCI 567, 569, 572, or 573) and Methods
II (EDCI 667, 669, 672, or 673). Corequisite: EDCI 790
Internship. Helps students understand the language and
literacy process as it applies to teaching in secondary
schools. Emphasizes reading and writing in the content areas
and instructional strategies to support students' literacy
development. Focuses on ways reading, writing, speaking,
and listening are developed and used in the learning of
discipline-specific curriculum, including adaptations for
culturally diverse and exceptional learners.
620 Teaching Reading/Writing in Foreign/Second
Languages in PK12 Settings (3:3:0). Prerequisite: EDCI
650. Provides an introduction to the reading and writing
processes in foreign and second languages, research on
reading comprehension, and effective teaching and
assessment approaches for students in PK12 schools. Topics
include reading goals and standards for foreign language
learning, socio-cultural perspectives, multimedia
computer-assistance, research on related strategies and skills, and
performance-based assessments.
630 Advanced Literacy Foundations and
Instruction, Birth to Middle Childhood (3:3:0).
Prerequisite: Admission to the literacy emphasis or permission of the
program coordinator. Provides advanced study of literacy
theory, research, and practice as it relates to younger
learners. Addresses sociocultural, cognitive, linguistic,
psychological, and developmental influences on children's
literacy. Includes reading, writing, and oral communication.
631 Advanced Literacy Foundations and
Instruction, Adolescence through Adulthood
(3:3:0). Prerequisites: EDRD 630 and admission to the literacy emphasis or
permission of the program coordinator. Provides advanced
study of literacy theory, research, and practice as it relates to
adolescents and adults. Addresses sociocultural, cognitive,
linguistic, psychological, and developmental influences
on literacy. Includes reading, writing, and oral communication.
632 Literacy Assessments and Interventions for
Groups (3:3:0). Prerequisites: EDRD 630 and 631; admission
to the literacy emphasis or permission of the program
coordinator. Provides literacy assessments and interventions
for groups of learners. Includes an exploration of
assessment tools for both classrooms and large populations.
Class members conduct related practica in their own
classrooms or in specified field settings.
633 Literacy Assessments and Interventions for
Individuals (3:3:0). Prerequisites: EDRD 630, 631, and
632; admission to the literacy emphasis or permission of
the program coordinator. Provides literacy assessments
and interventions for individuals. Includes diagnosis
and remediation for learners who find reading and writing
difficult. An assigned practicum experience is required.
634 School-Based Leadership in Literacy
(3:3:0). Prerequisites: EDRD 630, 631, 632, and 633; admission
to the literacy emphasis or permission of the program
coordinator. Prepares the reading specialist as a school
leader. Expands knowledge of literacy gained in
prerequisite
courses and applies it to professional development
work with teachers at their own school site.
635 School-Based Inquiry in Literacy
(3:3:0). Prerequisites: EDRD 630, 631, 632, 633, and 634; admission to
the literacy emphasis or permission of program
coordinator. This is the capstone course in the literacy emphasis.
Focuses on research-based inquiry related to literacy in
school settings. Includes a review of the literature and a
teacher inquiry project.
797 Advanced Topics in Education
(3:3:0). See EDUC 797.
830 Foundations of Literacy: Birth through Later
Childhood (3:3:0). See EDUC 830.
831 Foundations of Literacy: Adolescence
through Adulthood (3:3:0). See EDUC 831.
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