3.00 Credits
The course offers pre-service elementary (grades K-5) teachers practical ideas to help their future students to read competently, think critically, and encourage students� enjoyment of reading through multiple instructional strategies, technologies, and variety of language activities based on research and best practices of what works for all children. A variety of reading materials will be explored: new books published in the last five years, reflecting diverse and multicultural standards and competencies; literature based on different topics, themes, content/subject areas, a variety of situations and settings; and various and different types of informational texts as well as more traditional stories, poems, biography, and non-fiction.