Structured Language Teaching II

Catalog description

This course focuses on explicit, systematic teaching strategies for struggling readers in the areas of fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. Students will participate in clinical teaching and therapy practices while supervised by advisors in a clinical setting integrating both clinical and diagnostic knowledge and intervention knowledge across all five skills identified in the NRP Report (i.e., phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension). 30 focused field hours are required. These hours are spent in one-on-one settings where candidates provide MSSL instruction focusing on fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. The bulk of this work and feedback (lesson plans and instruction) is focused on these three areas of instruction. A mentor observes ten of the thirty hours. Some students choose to work with more than one student (each in individual settings) because they are already working with these students as a reading specialist. The requirement, however, is only that they work with one student.