RED 5657

Course Title: Foundations in Language and Cognition
 Course Credit Hours: 3 semester hours

Course Description
The course will enable participants develop understanding of reading as a process of student engagement in language and cognition. This course is designed strictly for practicing teachers and is completely online. Teachers will be provided substantive knowledge of language structure and function, as well as cognition for each of the five major components of the reading process. This course meets the requirements for COMPETENCY 1 of the Florida Reading Endorsement Certification program.

Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of the course, successful participants will demonstrate proficiency in Competency 1 of the K-12 Reading Endorsement Competencies: http://info.fldoe.org/docushare/dsweb/Get/Document-1004/ReadingEndorsement_Competencies.pdf Specifically, students will:

• Specific Indicator A: Phonemic Awareness
•  Identify and apply basic concepts of phonology as they relate to language development and reading performance (e.g., phonological processing, inventory of phonemes, phonemic awareness skills, phonemic analysis) *
• Distinguish both phonological and phonemic differences in language and their applications in written and oral discourse patterns (e.g., language & dialect differences) *
• Specific Indicator B: Phonics
• Identify structural patterns of words as they relate to reading development and reading performance (e.g., inventory of orthographic representations, syllable conventions; spellings of prefixes, root words, affixes) *
• Apply structural analysis to words (e.g., orthographic analysis, spelling morphologies, advanced phonics skills)
• Specific Indicator C: Fluency
• Identify the principles of reading fluency as they relate to reading development
• Understands the role of reading fluency in development of the reading process
• Specific Indicator D: Vocabulary
• Identify and apply principles of English morphology as they relate to language acquisition (e.g., identify meanings of morphemes, inflectional and derivational morphemes, morphemic analysis) *
• Identify principles of semantics as they relate to vocabulary development (e.g., antonyms, synonyms, figurative language, etc.)
• Specific Indicator E: Comprehension
• Identify principles of syntactic function as they relate to language acquisition and reading development (e.g., phrase structure, types of sentences, sentence manipulations) *
• Understands the impact of variations in written language of different text structures on the construction of meaning
• Identify cognitive task levels and the role of cognitive development in the construction of meaning of a variety of texts (e.g., knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, evaluation)
• Understands the transactive nature of the reading process in constructing meaning from a wide variety of texts and for a variety of purposes (e.g., text connections: within texts, across texts, from text to self, from text to world)
• Specific Indicator F: Integration of the major reading components
• Identify language characteristics related to informal language and cognitive academic language. *
• Identify phonemic, semantic, and syntactic variability between English and other languages. *
• Understands the interdependence between each of the major reading components and their effect upon fluency in the reading process (e.g., reading rate: phonological processing and construction of meaning)
• Understands the interdependence between each of the major reading components and their affect upon comprehension (e.g., construction of meaning: vocabulary, fluency)
• Understands the impact of dialogue, writing to learn, and print environment upon reading development
• Florida Educators Accomplished Practice #8, Knowledge of Subject Matter at http://www.fldoe.org/dpe/publications/accomplished4-99.pdf

Required Texts:

• Vacca and Vacca, Reading and learning to read, 6th ed. Allyn & Bacon
• Braunger & Lewis, Building a knowledge base in reading, Newark, DE: IRA
• Bear & Invernizzi, Words their way, 4th ed. Columbus, OH: Pearson Merrill
• TK20 Subscription available directly at http://uwf.tk20.com or through the UWF campus bookstore - Student Access Kits (ISBN 0-9774408-1-8)
• Additional readings embedded within each lesson

Major Assignments and Grading Evaluation
Students will be evaluated based on the following grading scheme.