The Teaching of Literacy: Processes, Skills, & Strategies

Catalog description

This course focuses predominantly on the Structured Literacy (SL) Knowledge and Practice Standards of pre-K through 12th grade Special Education Teachers and introduces teaching strategies and techniques that are consistent with state standards for assessments and instruction for students receiving special education services. As such, students will learn, practice, and plan instruction around the following structured literacy competencies around essential SL principles and practices, phonological and phonemic awareness, phonics (decoding and encoding) and word recognition, spelling, automatic, fluent reading of text, word recognition, vocabulary development, listening and reading comprehension, written expression, and differentiating reading instruction for a diverse population of learners. Course content will also be aligned with the Pennsylvania Core Standards for reading, writing, listening, and speaking.