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Scholastic RED

The San Diego State University (SDSU) College of Extended Studies (CES) offers three units of graduate credit for participation in Scholastic RED teacher education courses. Courses are fully reviewed and approved by the faculty of the SDSU College of Education. These graduate level courses are designed to meet the needs of educators who wish to develop or continue the study of a current topic. They are not designed to be applied to any degree program at SDSU, but, like all transferable credit, may, with approval from the receiving institution, be applied to a degree at that institution.

For questions about registering for graduate credit, please contact the CES Registration Office at ces.registrar@sdsu.edu or (619) 594-5152.

For questions not related to registration, please contact Jim Greene at jim.greene@sdsu.edu or (619) 561-2591.

Current Scholastic Red Course Offerings

Spring 2008 Courses

Building Decoding Skills and Strategies Grades 3–5

This course will focus on understanding the role of decoding in reading instruction for the intermediate grades student, teaching effective syllabication strategies to help students decode multisyllabic words, learning how to use morphemes to decode words and build vocabulary, and designing an effective systematic and explicit intervention program for students who struggle with decoding. Since the decoding needs of students in these grades vary, you will learn how to assess and group students accordingly. The majority of students in the intermediate grades will benefit from the strategies and techniques in this course.

Extension Credit Course No. ED X997 (three units)
Schedule No. 08SP 82246 GS
Dates: Jan. 21-April 25 (Registration deadline: May 16)
Location: Online
Fee: $216

Building Fluency Grades K–2

This course focuses on building fluency skills in the primary grades to develop comprehension. Beginning in kindergarten, teachers can assess children's automaticity with basic reading skills at the letter, sound, word, and text levels. Based on these assessments teachers can implement appropriate direct instruction strategies and practice activities to build their students' fluency.

Extension Credit Course No. ED X997 (three units)
Schedule No. 08SP 82250 GS
Dates: Jan. 21-April 25 (Registration deadline: May 16)
Location: Online
Fee: $216

Building Vocabulary for Reading Success K–3

This course will focus on building students' vocabularies and word-learning strategies. Large vocabularies and a store of strategies for learning new words are essential elements for reading comprehension.

Extension Credit Course No. ED X997 (three units)
Schedule No. 08SP 82261 GS
Dates: Jan. 21-April 25 (Registration deadline: May 16)
Location: Online
Fee: $216

English: A Universal Tool, Grades 9–12

This course is designed for English language arts teachers of students in grades 9–12. The first session provides an introduction and explains the crucial need for this course. The four online sessions that follow focus on strategies teachers can use to help all students improve their reading, writing, and thinking, and to develop other 21st century skills.

Extension Credit Course No. ED X997 (three units)
Schedule No. 08SP 82891 GS
Dates: Jan. 21-April 25 (Registration deadline: May 16)
Location: Online
Fee: $216

Guided Reading: Making It Work in Your Classroom K–6

This course defines and describes the essential elements of guided reading—an instructional approach in which a teacher supports students' developing key reading skills. The goal of this course, and of guided reading, is for students to put into practice the reading skills they already have as well as expand and deepen these existing skills with the teacher's guidance and support.

Extension Credit Course No. ED X997 (three units)
Schedule No. 08SP 82272 GS
Dates: Jan. 21-April 25 (Registration deadline: May 16)
Location: Online
Fee: $216

High School Literacy: Comprehension through Active Strategic Reading

This course is designed for all high school teachers and will focus on the latest research findings on active, strategic reading techniques and strategies for implementing active, strategic reading across the curriculum, as well as six important elements of adolescent literacy—motivation, contexts, communication, collaboration, connections, and assessment.

Extension Credit Course No. ED X997 (three units)
Schedule No. 08SP 82283 GS
Dates: Jan. 21-April 25 (Registration deadline: May 16)
Location: Online
Fee: $216

Improving Decoding Skills and Strategies Grades 6–8

This course will focus on understanding the role of decoding in reading instruction for the middle-school student. The sessions teach effective syllabication strategies to help students decode multisyllabic words and learn how to use morphemes to decode words and build vocabulary. The program also has an effective, systematic, and explicit intervention program for students who struggle with decoding.

Extension Credit Course No. ED X997 (three units)
Schedule No. 08SP 82294 GS
Dates: Jan. 21-April 25 (Registration deadline: May 16)
Location: Online
Fee: $216

Improving Fluency Grades 3–8

This course focuses on assessing oral fluency, direct instruction in building fluency, research-based instructional techniques and student practice activities for whole class, small-group, and independent fluency-building. It demonstrates how to implement fluency instruction and activities into daily classroom routines, how to match students to great books for fluency practice, and how to meet special fluency needs while at the same time successfully supporting students who have achieved or exceeded grade-level fluency.

Extension Credit Course No. ED X997 (three units)
Schedule No. 08SP 82305 GS
Dates: Jan. 21-April 25 (Registration deadline: May 16)
Location: Online
Fee: $216

Improving Reading Comprehension Grades 3–5

This course will assist teachers who want to improve their students' reading comprehension of nonfiction text. The course provides practical strategies for teachers to help students succeed in the various building blocks of comprehension.

Extension Credit Course No. ED X997 (three units)
Schedule No. 08SP 82316 GS
Dates: Jan. 21-April 25 (Registration deadline: May 16)
Location: Online
Fee: $216

Leading a Literacy-focused School

This course offers middle and high school principals, assistant principals and other school literacy leaders a practical, research-based approach to getting an entire secondary school focused on raising reading levels and reading achievement. Leaders will gain the knowledge and skills and have access to hundreds of proven tools and resources that will help them create and lead literacy-focused schools.

Extension Credit Course No. ED X997 (two units)
Schedule No. 08SP 82320 GS
Dates: Jan. 21-April 25 (Registration deadline: May 16)
Location: Online
Fee: $144

Middle School Literacy: Improving Text Comprehension

Intended for all teachers of middle school, including reading specialists and content-area teachers, this course is structured around strategies readers use before, during, and after reading to get meaning from text. It targets several research-based comprehension strategies that teachers can easily implement in their classroom. The course includes differentiated skill instruction for English language learners and students with special learning needs.

Extension Credit Course No. ED X997 (three units)
Schedule No. 08SP 82331 GS
Dates: Jan. 21–April 25 (Registration deadline: May 16)
Location: Online
Fee: $216

Putting Reading First in Your Classroom Grades K–2

Primary teachers are provided with the foundational skills and strategies to start children on the path to becoming lifelong readers. The course provides best practice teaching strategies in all five key areas of early reading development: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and text comprehension. As preparation for teaching early phonics skills and sight word automaticity, the course supports teachers in helping young children build oral language, attain alphabetic knowledge, and develop phonemic awareness.

Extension Credit Course No. ED X997 (three units)
Schedule No. 08SP 82342 GS
Dates: Jan. 21-April 25 (Registration deadline: May 16)
Location: Online
Fee: $216

Reading Success for English Language Learners K–3

This course focus on the key knowledge and skills that English language learners need to learn in early literacy programs.

Extension Credit Course No. ED X997 (three units)
Schedule No. 08SP 82375 GS
Dates: Jan. 21-April 25 (Registration deadline: May 16)
Location: Online
Fee: $216

Strategies for Teaching Striving Readers

This course focuses on practical strategies that all secondary teachers can implement to help striving readers and all students improve their reading.

Extension Credit Course No. ED X997 (three units)
Schedule No. 08SP 82386 GS
Dates: Jan. 21-April 25 (Registration deadline: May 16)
Location: Online
Fee: $216

Supporting Secondary Teachers in Literacy Instruction

This course focuses on the literacy coach's role in helping content-area teachers improve classroom literacy instruction for striving readers and for all students.

Extension Credit Course No. ED X997 (two units)
Schedule No. 08SP 82390 GS
Dates: Jan. 21-April 25 (Registration deadline: May 16)
Location: Online
Fee: $144

There currently are no summer courses offered in this area.

Last update May 6, 2008

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