Assessment and Instruction in Literacy I

Catalog description

Focuses on the principles of ongoing assessment and instruction of K-12 students' reading and writing development. Strategies to select, use, and interpret appropriate standardized, criterion-referenced, and informal assessment measures will be provided. Techniques for analysis of students' literacy strengths and weaknesses and techniques for coaching colleagues and paraprofessionals will be addressed. Individual and group literacy strategies are explored and practiced in public school classrooms and a clinical setting.