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Teaching a Child to Read
Professor Rollanda O'Connor
Graduate School of Education
Course: HASS 092-33O
Call #: 19616
Mondays, 11:40am-1:00pm, Sproul 1339

Learning to read is the single most important academic task of the elementary school years, however, many of our school children fail in this task. This class will explore developmental stages of learning to read, and how current research is applied in developing strategies that successfully guide children through each stage. Along with the research, the teaching techniques and activities that have been most effective with struggling readers in Kindergarten through Grade 3 will be modeled and discussed.

Reading List:

O'Connor, R.E. (2007). Teaching word recognition. New York: Guilford.

Brief Biographical Statement:

Rollanda O'Connor is a reading specialist and Professor at the University of California at Riverside. She has conducted numerous intervention studies in special and general education settings, explored procedures to predict in kindergarten and first grade which children are likely to develop reading disabilities, and followed the reading progress of children who have received early intervention.