42 courses with the subject READ, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
READ 112(3-3-0) Foundations of Reading Instruction
An introduction to reading from perspectives of history, el sociology, and psychology, emphasizing factors involved in facilitating learning to read as a developmental process.
Observational experience in the public school related to the teaching of reading, the management of reading groups, the assessment of oral and silent reading habits of children, the evaluation and selection of reading materials, and the development of reading centers.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course is designed to explore the reading process, factors that affect reading development, and the changing nature of literacy in the 21st Century, including an examination of reading comprehension and learning using the internet versus print-based reading environments.
Practical experience in the public school including limited teaching of reading, tutoring, and working with reading materials and resources. In conjunction with READ 315: Teaching of Reading in the Elementary School.
READ 315(3-3-0) Teaching Reading in the Elementary School: An introduction to the basics of reading
instruction, with emphasis on reading readiness, the initial stages of reading development, and primary and intermediate reading programs. Prerequisite: Admission to teacher education. (Fall, Spring)
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course focuses on the purposes of literacy instruction, which includes helping children develop their oral language skills, and describing how reading and writing develop. Emphasis is placed on providing a wide variety of activities for preschoolers to stimulate language development and literacy. Assessing children's progress in literacy is also addressed.
READ 513(3-3-0) Reading Remediation and Practicum: A practical course in the design of reading programs
appropriate to individual and group needs, with a practicum experience in the facilitation of individual and group reading activities. (Closed to students with equivalent undergraduate course work.) READ 516 (0-3-3) Applied Phonics: An introduction to the essentials of phonics, with emphasis on applications to word identification and pronunciation in teaching children to read. READ 550 (3-3-0) Reading in the Junior and Senior High School: A lecture and laboratory course in the principles and practices of teaching reading at the junior and senior high school levels, with emphasis on means of assessing students’ reading skills and on methods and materials for enhancing their reading abilities in the content areas.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 A particular emphasis will be placed on the teaching of phonological awareness, phonemic awareness, and the importance of the integration of culturally relevant texts in reading instruction. An introduction to current literacy programs used statewide.
READ 518Using Literacy Research to Inform Classroom Practice3
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course engages pre-service and in-service teachers in the utilization of literacy strategies applicable for students with persistent reading challenges with an emphasis on fluency and comprehension. Additionally, this course uses an equity framework for culturally responsive literacy instruction.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Investigations of studies on the reading process, including analyses and critical evaluations of the research, with particular emphasis on psychological principles and educational implications. This course provides an 284
READ 520Reading Research to Classroom Practice and Implementation3
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course provides laboratory experiences in studying, assessing, and evaluating literacy problems and developing plans for correcting reading problems. Practical application of knowledge and skills taught in FSU Reading Clinic.
READ 552(3-0-3) Teaching Literacy Across Content Areas: This course provides an indepth study of reading
comprehension strategies and study skills needed in order to read in the content areas. Different types of text, structures and features of expository (informational) texts, and a variety of reading strategies will be explored. Prerequisite: Admission to Graduate Study; A B.S. Degree in Elementary Education, Early Childhood Education or a related area; permission of the instructor. READ 601 (3-3-0) Special Topics in Reading: A practicum course that develops skills in observing, recording, and analyzing children’s reading and writing behaviors and implementing effective methods for teaching literacy to young children at risk or reading failure. Generates understanding of theories of reading and writing processes and of reading acquisition from an emergent perspective. Prerequisite: Permission of reading coordinator.
A practicum course that develops skills in observing, recording, and analyzing children’s reading and writing behaviors and implementing effective methods for teaching literacy to young children at risk or reading failure. Generates understanding of theories of reading and writing processes and of reading acquisition from an emergent perspective. Prerequiste: Permission of reading coordinator. Course Descriptions 89
READ 605(3-0-3) Investigations in the Teaching of Reading: Investigations of research studies on the reading
process, including analyses and critical evaluations of the research, with particular emphasis on psychological principles and educational implications. Prerequisite: EDUC 690. READ 610 (3-3-0) Foundations of Literacy: This course provides basic information about the reading process what it is how the child learns to read instructional strategies, and materials available for facilitating literacy teaching. Prerequisite: Admission to Graduate Study; A B.S. Degree in Elementary Education, Early Childhood Education or a related area; permission of the instructor.
READ 612(3-3-0) Principles and Practices in Emergent literacy: This course involves a study of how children
acquire language and literacy and the research on emergent literacy. The goals and components of an emergent literacy curriculum are studied as well as principles and practices of teaching children at the emergent readers. Prerequisites: Admission to graduate study; a B.S. Degree in Elementary Education, or related area; permission of the instructor.
READ 618(3-3-0) Reading: The Learning Bases: An exploration of educational and psychological studies on the
reading-learning process, with particular emphasis on applications to the teaching of reading and to remediation of reading-related problems. Prerequisites: Admittance to graduate study, a B.S. degree in Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, or related area; permission of the instructor, and competencies in foundations of reading.
READ 620(3-0-0) Assessment and Evaluation of Reading Problems: This course provides a laboratory experience
in studying, assessing, and evaluating, literacy problems and in developing plans for correcting reading problems. READ 621 (3-3-0) Clinical Procedures in the Identification and Evaluation of Reading Disabilities: A practical lecture and laboratory study of the nature, causes, and characteristics of reading disabilities, with additional emphasis on clinical skills basic to the diagnosis and evaluation of reading difficulties. Prerequisites: EDUC 680, PSYC 692, READ 611, or READ 605 or permission of the instructor.
Provides a laboratory experience in analyzing, implementing, and utilizing specialized reading strategies designed to meet the literacy needs of problem readers. assessment.
READ 644(3-3-0) Organization and Management of Reading Programs: An examination of the organizational
planning and educational leadership basic to designing and implementing a district-wide developmental reading program for grades K-12. READ 698 (3-3-0, 6-6-0 – variable credit) Advanced Applied Product of Learning: This course has been designed to serve as a capstone or culminating experience for the Advanced Master’s Degree Program in Education in all the specialization areas. This course will assist students in preparing the culminating activity and will encapsulate the total experiences in the program. It will provide a field-based context for the completion, presentation, and evaluation of the exit options: advanced professional portfolio, action research project, and thesis. (Other requirements related to the area of specialization, such as field experience component, may be required by the area of specialization.) READ 699 (3-0-3) Seminar – Thesis: In-depth studies of issues in various fields of education, with conferences and discussions under the guidance of major professor.
Advanced Applied Product of Learning This course has been designed to serve as a capstone or culminating experience for the Advanced Master’s Degree Program in Education in all the specialization areas. This course will assist students in preparing the culminating activity and will encapsulate the total experiences in the program. It will provide a field-based context for the completion, presentation, and evaluation of the exit options: advanced professional portfolio, action research project, and thesis. (Other requirements related to the area of specialization, such as field experience component, may be required by the area of specialization.)