Collaborative Approaches to Disciplinary Literary Instruction

Catalog description

This course prepares candidates to collaborate with classroom teachers to plan and deliver evidence-based disciplinary literacy instruction that supports diverse learners, including students at risk for and with learning and language-based disabilities. Candidates apply evidence-based instructional practices, strategies, and routines to strengthen the comprehension strand of reading, including vocabulary, background knowledge, syntax, text structure, and written expression, within content-area instruction across grade levels. Emphasis is placed on co-planning, co-teaching, and progress-monitoring practices that embed explicit comprehension, vocabulary, and writing routines into mathematics, science, social studies, and English language arts classrooms. Candidates learn to adapt instruction based on diagnostic and formative data, promote accessibility for multilingual learners and students with disabilities, and foster a shared professional responsibility for equitable literacy outcomes across disciplines.