ED 317 - Assessing Student Literacies in Grades PK-8

4.00 credits.

This course provides preservice teachers theories and methods for assessing student literacies in grades PK-8. Through exploring and reflecting on their own literacy practices, students will learn strategies and interventions that will help them assess and monitor student progress in tradition and digital literacies. The course, which will emphasize writing assessment, will include topics such as reading and writing workshop, special topics in the teaching of reading (e.g. vocabulary, comprehension, and fluency), designing mini-lessons after informally assessing (e.g., meeting with students during conferences) and formally assessing (e.g., administering state assessments) students, writing genres for authentic purposes and audiences, mentor texts, technology in the literacy classroom, writing in the content areas, rubrics, and grammar. *Prerequisite(s): ED 258 and Formal acceptance into the Education Program.