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Professor (Reading Education)
Phone: 803-641-3209
Email: maggier@usca.edu
Fax: 803-641-3698
Courses Taught:
AEDR 418, Children’s Literature, Syllabus
AEDR 420, Teaching Reading in the Elementary School, Syllabus
AEDR 420P, Practicum in Reading, Syllabus
AEDL 470, Internship in the Elementary School, Syllabus
AEDL 476, Senior Seminar, Syllabus
AEDU 635: Reading in the Content Areas (online)
Margaret Riedell is a Professor of Reading Education at the University of South Carolina Aiken. Prior to coming to USCA, she taught second grade in the Fort Jackson Elementary Schools and later worked in a resource setting with students who were learning disabled and those who were English language learners. During her doctoral studies, she worked as a reading clinician and as an instructor on the USC Columbia campus. She is a former President of the South Carolina State Council of the International Reading Association. Dr. Riedell served as the Interim Head and Head of the School of Education from 1990-2001. During that time the School of Education established the first master’s degree program at USCA in Elementary Education and attained its initial accreditation by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education. At the present time, Dr. Riedell serves as Coordinator of the undergraduate program in Elementary Education. For the past twenty years she has had the pleasure of teaching children’s literature and reading education courses at USCA. Her current areas of interest are literature circles, multicultural children’s books, and the use of academic blogs in her children’s literature class.
