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(3 hours) Prerequisites: Admission to the Teacher Education Program; Child Development, Elementary, and Early Childhood Education majors EDUC 300 (Grade C or better) and they must take section 01. Middle Grades, Secondary and P-12 majors must take section 02. A study of strategies for the improvement of literacy skills in the content areas using development content-specific activities and materials. Emphasis will be given to identifying learner needs and planning instructional delivery with varied pupil groupings, along with the use of assessment, enrichment and remediation ideas and techniques for applying reading and writing skills in the content areas. Some focus will be given to creative/critical thinking skills the utilization of technology for instruction. Each course section will also emphasize the importance of children's literature or adolescent literature. For EC/ELEM: a 5 hour practicum is required; For Middle/Secondary: a 20 hour practicum is required. Students are responsi