Teaching Struggling Readers & Writers in the Secondary Classroom

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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, English language learning, visual and auditory discrimination, decoding skills that include phonetic analysis, syntactic analysis, semantic 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 addressed as well as writing assessments. Differentiated instructional strategies will be embedded into lesson and unit plans to accommodate varying learning needs.