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EDSE 555: Language Development

and Emerging Literacy

Graduate School of Education

George Mason University

Fall, 2000

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Class Overheads

• Language Development    

• Initial Language Training      

• Nonverbal Language Skills

• Oral Language Skills

• Reading Nature and Assessment                      

• Characteristics of Reading Disabilities

• Phonology and Reading Definitions

• Reading Decoding

• Sequence for Teaching Phonics

• Reading Fluency 

• Reading Comprehension

• Reading: Proposed problems and solutions

• Handwriting

• Spelling

• Writing