Clinical for Diagnosing and CorrectingReading Difficulties

This is a course that gives teacher candidates the opportunity to work with public school students who have reading difficulties. The teacher candidate will, with the diagnostic tools learned in READ 4330 Recognizing and Instructing Struggling Readers, diagnose the reading problem and prescribe instructional strategies to improve the reading problems experienced by the public school student. In addition, the teacher candidate will meet regularly with the student for tutoring sessions. The teacher candidate will document the results of the tutoring sessions and write a final report on the student's progress in reading. The teacher candidate will be required to travel to the public school during the hours that the students are in class. This course contains a field-based service-learning component.