5 courses with the subject GCRS, 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.
GCRS 603FOUNDATIONS OF LITERACY3
The Foundations of Literacy course provides a scientifically based foundation in the cognitive, socio-cultural, linguistic, and motivational influences on literacy and language development. The course presents the key scientifically based reading research foundations needed to understand how reading develops and effective methods and strategies used to teach literacy skills to young children through young adults. Topics include understanding reading research, cognitive psychology's contributions to understanding the reading process, language development, the sequence of learning to read, the essential components of reading instruction, and an introduction to the most effective approaches to teaching reading across the grade bands.
This course provides an overview of assessments and materials that may be used by the reading specialist to observe and document PrePK-12 pupils' reading performance, relate pupils' performance to appropriate reading instruction and evaluate their progress. Additionally, students will utilize assessment instruments to observe and identify the nature of children's difficulties and strengths and effectively diagnose the literacy instructional needs of diverse learners, PreK-12. Finally, students will be taught how to communicate test results properly and accurately to parents and stakeholders. Prerequisite GCRS 603.
This course is taught concurrently with GCRS 633, which addresses strategies for using literacy assessment data to design, implement, and evaluate reading instruction for readers with diverse literacy needs. Projects in this course are shared across both courses. Minimum of 60 hours of focused on addressing the literacy instruction needs of struggling readers and writers in PrePK-12 clinical and/or classroom settings is required. Prerequisite GCRS 623; Taken concurrently with GCRS 633.
