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CMU Teaching Channel

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You will need access to the Teaching channel by the end of the first week of class, in order to be assigned to the appropriate team for week 2 assignments.

1 hour. This practicum (18 clock hours) provides opportunities for pre-service teachers to practice reading strategies with elementary students. Prerequisite: ED315 and concurrent enrollment in ED318.

Upon successful completion of the course, 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.