2 credits
Summer 2025 Lecture Upper Division
This course offers an extensive review of the scientific evidence regarding how children learn to read and best practices in teaching reading to typically achieving and struggling readers. Emphasis is placed on informed assessment, the five elements of reading and how to provide an interdisciplinary approach to reading instruction that is explicit, systematic, and cumulative.
Learning Outcomes1Describe the developmental process of learning to read detailing the five elements of reading.
2Assimilate knowledge of linguistic concepts required for the development of reading skills.
3Identify appropriate tools used to assess literacy development in school-age children to determine strengths and weaknesses of children with reading difficulties.
4Discuss performance on literacy tasks, outline intervention needs and possible supports.
5Communicate results to stakeholders conveying the reading profile of children and their needs.
Restrictions
GPA by professor
made by Purdue students.