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Literacy Assessment and Intervention Practicum
EDU H801

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Description

Children learn to read and write along a developmental continuum and through different instructional strategies. This course addresses the issues around literacy learning for typically developing and struggling readers as evidenced in the research and addressed in practice, taking a culturally sustaining stance. In this course, each student, paired with an elementary school-aged learner, will learn how to administer and interpret a battery of literacy assessments and then design an intervention plan for the learner. The course will connect research, theory, and practice through course readings, intervention work, and collaboration with colleagues. Students will share effective practices from their intervention and address the role of language, culture, and socio-economic background in the assessment and remediation of reading difficulties. Each student will be supported by a Reading Specialist/Literacy Coach mentor at their assigned school site and will be observed by the teaching team and the mentor. The Standards for Reading Professionals of the International Literacy Association serve as the guiding principles for this course.

Prerequisites: teaching experience at the elementary, middle, or high school level.

School Graduate School of Education
Credits 4
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Department Education
Course Component Field-Based Practicum
Instruction Mode In Person
Subject Education
Grading Basis HGSE Student Option (Letter Graded, Sat/Unsat)
Learning Goals The students will be able to: Administer and interpret a battery of individual literacy assessments (quantitative and qualitative) Use formal and informal assessments to develop an intervention plan for a student (K-5) Deliver an effective, data driven intervention instruction to a student with the supervision of school-based mentors Collaborate with classroom teachers, Reading Specialists/Literacy Coaches, and other school-based personnel Incorporate culturally sustaining pedagogy and Sheltered English strategies into intervention work, tapping the learner's fund of knowledge Write a Diagnostic Summary and an Intervention Summary for a K-5 student
Career Focus <p>Literacy intervention, K-5<br>Literacy leadership, K-12<br>Classroom teaching, K-5<br>Reading Specialist teacher, K-12<br>Literacy Coach, K-8<br>Curriculum development/design</p>