Literacy Assessment and Intervention

Catalog description

The focus of this course is on learning: (1) how to collect assessment data regarding a child?s literacy development; (2) how the components of literacy can be assessed; (3) how to interpret those assessments and use them to identify instructional needs; and (4) instructional strategies to remediate students? learning needs in the following critical areas of literacy development: motivation and interest; automatic word recognition; and language comprehension, strategic knowledge, and writing.