EDTE 5201 - Theoretical Foundations of Reading Instruction

• Candidates will articulate her/his personal theory of reading and explain how that affects her/his classroom instruction and research interests.
• Candidates will demonstrate a critical stance toward the scholarship of the profession.
• Candidates will explain and provide examples of how cultural and linguistic diversity impacts learning to read in the schools of the United States.
• Candidates will explain how different theories and research explain the relationship between and importance of the different components of reading and how those ideas impact how the components would be taught and assessed in the P-12 classroom.
• Candidates will explain the relationship between the major theories of reading and tell why a knowledge of theories is important to teachers and researchers of reading.
• Candidates will explain, compare, contrast, and critique the theories of reading that have significant impact on teacher’s and researcher’s beliefs.
• Candidates will identify, explain, compare, and contrast the theories and research in the areas of language development that are important to our understanding of the processes involved in learning to read.
• Candidates will name, describe, and explain the importance of and the relationships between the major components of reading and how they are integrated into fluent reading.
• Candidates will recount the important historical developments in reading and reading instruction.
• Candidates will summarize seminal reading studies and articulate how those studies have impacted our understanding of the reading process and the instruction of reading.