The focus of this course includes major theoretical foundations, principles, procedures, and practices that center around teaching elementary literacy-reading, writing, grammar, speaking, listening, spelling, viewing, and visual representation. Candidates will learn how to integrate different instructional strategies, methods and resources into curriculum they design to help elementary students develop and reinforce their literacy skills. Candidates will become familiar with a variety of instructional resources including phonics, language experience, basal readers, and other literature in helping to develop cognition, reading, and comprehension skills. Candidates will also obtain skills in creating, administering, and evaluating formal and informal classroom-based assessments to identify reading strengths and weaknesses. Clinical field experience required. Pre-requisite: EDUC 210, EDUC 290. Fall, Spring.