Effective Word Study Instruction

Catalog description

In this course, candidates learn about diagnostic and instructional approaches to teach phonemic awareness, phonics strategies, sight word strategies, semantic and syntactic context strategies, and structural analysis strategies and spelling development in grades K-12. Topics include the nature of word analysis strategies, the stages of literary development, the nature of the spelling system, assessing students' literacy development, facilitating emergent literacy, phonological awareness, and developing the concept of word and letter knowledge. This course requires a classroom-based field experience.