Overview
Description
Emphasis on diagnostic teaching, instruction, special needs, and interrelated areas of reading, writing and spelling development. Intervention.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Attributes
StandardRepeatable up to 6 credits
Learning Outcomes
- demonstrate critical evaluation of research on reading development and adolescent literacy.
- demonstrate understanding of the interrelated areas of reading, writing, and spelling development.
- identify the academic language demands typical of secondary-level texts, both in general and within particular content areas.
- identify the specific reading and writing difficulties typical of readers with disabilities.
- identify the specific reading and writing difficulties typical of English language learners.
- identify contextual factors that may affect the reading development and the literacy habits of older readers from various socioeconomic and linguistic backgrounds.
- demonstrate knowledge of a wide range of instructional strategies and programmatic interventions for supporting the literacy of struggling older readers.
- demonstrate knowledge of effective practices with formative and summative assessment to diagnose and monitor achievement of older readers, as well as to make instructional modifications.
- apply strategies to engage older readers and to encourage independent literacy habits.