What is the mission of the Center for Literacy and Reading Instruction?
The center (generally referred to by those who work there as The Reading Center, or the clinic) is a facility for graduate students in the Department of Learning and Instruction who conduct reading diagnostic assessments of children who are finding it difficult to read, and provide reading remediation to these children. The graduate students are literacy specialist majors, enrolled in an Ed.M. literacy specialist program, and most Ph.D. students in reading also work in the clinic at some point in their schooling. The students in the literacy specialist program generally have completed numerous lecture, discussion and seminar courses on the theories, methods and materials of teaching in primary, elementary and secondary classrooms and diagnostically assessing and teaching children who have encountered severe difficulties in acquiring reading ability. It is in the practicum experience in the Reading Center that it all comes together for the graduate students. It is here that they begin t
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