EDU 840P - Practicum for the Reading Specialist

3 Credit(s) This is a supervised practicum experience in diagnosis of children’s reading difficulties and teaching to meet the children’s specific needs. Experience in the practicum will include: Administration of diagnostic measures, design of intervention strategies to meet needs, teaching, and preparation of reports of progress. There are required individual conferences with the cooperating practitioner and college supervisor. This experience meets part of the practicum requirement in reading.
Prerequisites:

EDU 729

EDU 741C

EDU 745A

EDU 817C

, plus one elective in children’s or adolescent literature. Not open to students who have taken

EDU 840A

. To be taken concurrently with

EDU 840S

. Restricted admission.