EDUC 636 - Language, Literacy, and Poverty

Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take EDUC-555. (Required, Previous).
Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max:

Description: This course and its required field-based action research experiences are designed to provide graduate students with a focused study and application of theories and models of the reading process as they apply to children of poverty. Graduate students explore the impact of life with limited resources on brain development, specifically as it relates to language and literacy. Developmental reading and writing and reading and writing across the curriculum are practiced in high poverty settings. Research-based and authentic language and literacy assessment practices that provide a basis for instructional decisions for high poverty students are implemented in the field setting.