State Required Reading Course
According to the Concordia University Website -
EDU545/845 - Teaching for Struggling Readers & Writers in the Secondary Classroom This course focuses on assessment and instructional strategies for students struggling with reading and writing in secondary classrooms. Teachers will research “best practices” in literacy instruction and will assess students through multiple perspectives including interest inventories, learning styles, analysis, sight word vocabulary, and fluency. Reading comprehension and the significance of a learner’s prior knowledge in the understanding of content area reading will be addresses as well as writing assessments. Differentiated instructional strategies are embedded into lesson and unit plans to accommodate varying learning needs. (3 credits) |