SPED 6590 Language and Literacy Strategies

This course prepares participants to use advanced strategies and accommodations to teach reading and language arts to struggling readers. It will empower teachers by providing them with specific suggestions for problems they likely will encounter in today’s classrooms. The course will focus on how to assess reading problems based on the National Reading Panel standards. It will then focus on placement and specific interventions for the modification of instruction for decoding letter names and word recognition, new vocabulary, fluency, comprehension, fine motor skills, spelling, grammar, and written expression.
Credits: 3.0