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Assessing and Correcting Reading and Writing Difficulties provides a comprehensive, practical approach that details—and illustrates through a wealth of examples—how to assess students and how to use assessment results to screen students, monitor progress, and provide effective instruction. -
This popular course provides comprehensive, balanced, practical literacy instruction for all students in today’s increasingly diverse classrooms, especially students from culturally diverse backgrounds and those struggling with reading and writing. -
How the Science of Reading Informs Teaching (5 credits) EDCT 5791Understanding the science of reading is more important than ever. This course draws on cutting-edge research in machine learning, linguistics, and early childhood development. The past two decades have brought giant leaps in our understanding of how the brain works. In this course, you will learn how children’s brains develop as they become readers and discover ways you can take concrete steps to promote this critical developmental passage.
Using a research-based framework of “brain words”—dictionaries in the brain where students store and automatically access sounds, spellings, and meanings—the course offers a wealth of information that will transform thinking and practice:- Reading and neurological circuitry, including evidence that spelling is at the core of the reading brain
- Tools to recognize what works, what doesn’t, and why
- Practical classroom activities for daily teaching and student assessment
- Insights about what brain research tells us about whole language and phonics-first movements
- Deepened understanding of dyslexia through the enhanced lens of brain science
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Recent media stories about education have featured the “Science of Reading,” whose proponents typically present the systematic teaching of phonics as a one-size-fits-all method that guarantees reading success for all students. However, decoding of words is only one of many skills that are central to effective early literacy education. This course takes a concentrated look at the often-underestimated reading and writing work that occurs during the emergent reading stages of literacy development. There is no single framework or solution that will fit every child. Educators can help young learners think deeply about ideas and language at the same time as they learn to work out the sounds and symbol systems of language. Click Here to Buy Learning to Be Literate direct from the publisher Click Here to Buy Intentional From the Start direct from the publisher Click Here to preview the course syllabus. -
This course is rich and comprehensive, with practical insights to the frontier of early literacy. Grounded in research and extensive experience in prekindergarten classrooms the course demonstrates how to:- Create a classroom community that is play-based, and prepares children for the literacy-rich world in which they live
- Promote constructive learning through inquiry
- Recognize the language and literacy behaviors and understandings that are appropriate instructional goals for preschoolers
- Use powerful and playful ways to guide children to learn about letters, sounds, and words
- Support emergent readers and writers through an array of literacy activities.
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More educators than ever are teaching comprehension. This course focuses on the foundation of meaning, providing educators with a solid introduction to reading comprehension instruction, including principles that guide practice, suggestions for text selection, and a review of recent research. It contains lessons to put these principles into practice for all areas of reading comprehension. It shows how to integrate comprehension instruction across the curriculum and the school day, with a focus on science and social studies. It includes digital reading, strategies for integrating comprehension and technology, and comprehension across the curriculum, close reading, close listening, text complexity, and critical thinking, demonstrating how students can build knowledge through thinking-intensive reading and learning. Click Here to Buy Strategies that Work direct from the publisher Click Hereto preview the course syllabus. -
This course takes an in-depth look at powerful yet unconventional instructional reading approaches. -
The current emphasis on the body of research known as the "Science of Reading" has renewed the reading wars and raised challenging questions for balanced literacy teachers about the best way to teach reading. Instead of fueling the debate, this course organizes essential educational theory and effective instructional practices under a complete, layered intervention model. The course focuses on scientifically sound shifts reading teachers can make to strengthen their approach to early reading instruction. Click Here to Buy The Comprehensive Intervention Model direct from the publisher Click Here to Buy Shifting the Balance direct from the publisher Click Here to preview the course syllabus. -
The Daily 5 provides a way for teachers to structure literacy and math for teachers to create student independence and allow for individualized attention and one-on-one. -
Built on a rigorous research base and to emphasize student diversity, equity, and inclusion, The New Classroom Instruction That Works provides a streamlined focus on the 14 instructional strategies proven to promote deep, meaningful, and lasting learning:- Cognitive interest cues
- Student goal setting and monitoring
- Vocabulary instruction
- Strategy instruction and modeling
- Visualizations and concrete examples
- High-level questions and student explanations
- Guided initial application with formative feedback
- Peer-assisted consolidation of learning
- Retrieval practice
- Spaced and mixed independent practice
- Targeted support
- Cognitive writing
- Guided investigations
- Structured problem solving
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The Reading Mind explains the fascinating journey from seeing letters, then words, sentences, with the author highlighting each step along the way. This course covers every aspect of reading, starting with two fundamental processes: reading by sight and reading by sound. It also addresses reading comprehension at all levels, from reading for understanding at early levels to inferring deeper meaning from texts and novels in high school. The course considers the undeniable connection between reading and writing, as well as the important role of motivation as it relates to reading. It tackles the intersection of our rapidly changing technology and its effects on learning to read and reading. Click Here to purchase the text direct from the publisher Click Here to preview the syllabus -
When Readers Struggle: Teaching That Works (5 credits) EDRD 5758
