Investigate a variety of pre-reading strategies that facilitate reading comprehension and target student achievement. Implement strategies in the areas of vocabulary, activating prior knowledge, discussion, and organization. (20 credit hours)
Explore and implement strategies that enable students to move toward becoming independent readers. Focus on helping students monitor their own comprehension through the interactive (during) reading phase. (20 credit hours)
Examine and implement a variety of strategies that focus on helping students reflect upon and extend meaning of text during the post-reading phase of comprehension. (20 credit hours)
Learn to encourage self-reflection in students through engaging, stimulating, and dynamic methods of instruction. Investigate and implement a variety of strategies to improve students' ability to read, reason, and write. (30 credit hours)
