Struggling Readers: Mid/Sec

Catalog description

With an emphasis on current developmental reading approaches at the middle and high school level, this course is designed to develop a teacher's skills in the observation, assessment and diagnosis of reading difficulties in middle-high school students. Specific teaching strategies or helping struggling readers in grades 7-12 will be mastered. Evaluation of materials, creation of plans to assist students in small-group and whole-class settings, and cutting-edge research-driven strategies for literacy instruction will be applied.