LAE 3324C - Middle Grades Practicum I: Composition

4 credits
Prerequisites: ENC 1101 , ENC 1102 , 3 credits of college level mathematics, EDM 3230 or EDG 3620 , EDG 3410 , EDG 4004 , all with a grade of “C” or better
Required: This course requires 35 hours of practicum in a 5-9 classroom setting over a minimum of eight weeks.

This course is designed to prepare teacher candidates to teach composition in grades 5-9. Teacher candidates will survey various composition styles and rhetorical methods. Writing workshop methodology will be applied to standards-based language arts instruction. Research and methods on dialect diversity, development of semantics and the teaching of Standard English grammar will be considered as lessons are created. This course requires thirty-five hours of practicum in a 5-9 classroom setting.