Literacy Intervention Strategies For Diverse Learners

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Focuses on teaching children who experience difficulty acquiring literacy skills. Assessments of children’s strengths and needs are used to inform and plan instruction. Strategies for helping children develop more mature literacy understandings are applied in weekly individual or small-group instructional sessions. Includes a field-based experiential component. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer. Prerequisite(s): EDCI 36100 FOR LEVEL UG WITH MIN. GRADE OF C (MAY BE TAKEN CONCURRENTLY) Course Learning Outcomes 1. Identify what preconceptions, error patterns, and misconceptions they may expect to find in student’s understanding of how language functions in communication. 2. Help students correct their misunderstandings of development and uses of language. 3. Use formative and summative assessment to determine the level of student’s competence in their understanding of and use of language. 4. Use the results of assessments to plan effective instruction. 5. Reflect on their practice and continually evaluate the effects of their professional decisions and actions on students, families, and other professionals in the learning community. View Class Schedule