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DISTANCE CLASSES

Updating Your Read-Alouds

        Kathy Otto     

Reading aloud to students is an important component of a balanced literacy program.  It broadens student understanding of written language, demonstrates fluency and helps students learn comprehension skills.  Perhaps most importantly, it helps establish a desire to read.

In this class you will learn to identify the qualities and characteristics of good read-alouds and how to identify them in a variety of genres. Strategies & techniques for reading aloud effectively will be covered. You will become familiar with recently published titles as well as print and web resources for evaluating them.

Fall:

   Register anytime until 11/5/10.

    Course work due 12/5/10.        

    Grades posted online (www.pdx.edu) 12/15/10.

Fees:   3 Graduate Quarter Credits: $165 PSU + $480 TINT

     (Noncredit: $480 TINT) 

Fees**

Portland State University is changing the way fees are collected.

Although total tuition amounts are unchanged PSU credit students will now make two payments:

1. a course fee payable to TINT (paid by all students)

2. a credit fee payable to PSU (paid by credit students only)

All materials and assignments will be found online and can be completed through email or sent to your instructor in the mail. Grades available online (www.pdx.edu).

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