3 hours. The study of formal and informal assessment as it relates to individual needs is a basic part of this course. Development of instructional plans with an emphasis on personalized reading strategies and continuous assessment is included. Prerequisites: ED315, successful passing of MoGEA exam, and concurrent enrollment in ED319.

Upon successful completion of the ED318 & ED319 courses, each participant should be able to:

1. Describe the cueing systems of language (semantic, syntactic, graphophonemic and pragmatic) and recognize their integrated use by beginning/developing readers
2. Use formal and informal assessments to understand the needs of beginning/developing readers
3. Design lessons/experiences, based on continuous assessment, that focus on reading strategies that address semantic, syntactic, graphophonemic and pragmatic cueing systems
4. Design lessons/experiences that strengthen comprehension through the skill of analyzing text as a reader
5. Make connections between classroom literacy assessments and activities and the Common Core Competencies for English Language Arts.