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2018-2019 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2018-2019 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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ELEM 341 - Reading Assessment and Instruction


Description:
The use of assessment of literacy skills and processes that drive instruction, as well as content and methodology of vocabulary development, fluency, word study, and comprehension are covered. Course will be offered every year. Course will not have an established scheduling pattern.

Prerequisites:
Prerequisites: Full admission to the Teacher Certification Program and ELEM 331 and valid WSP/FBI fingerprint clearance is required for this course. The clearance must appear in OSPI’s Fingerprinting Database and be valid throughout the quarter enrolled.

 

Credits: (4)

Learner Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

  • Integrate reading, writing, speaking, listening, visualizing, viewing, and thinking as developmental processes.
  • Select and implement a wide range of reading assessment tools.
  • Interpret assessment results to make instructional decisions based on assessment data, including those with different developmental, cultural, and linguistic needs.
  • Implement research-based lessons in fluency, comprehension, word study, vocabulary.
  • Implement research-based literacy strategy lessons using a variety of culturally relevant, print and non-print, literary and expository texts.
  • Explain how teachers connect learning to students (particularly those with special and diverse needs).
  • Explain the variability of reading levels of students in the same grade and within a student across the essential components of reading.
  • Describe how individual, social, and cultural factors influence interpersonal communication.
  • Participate in a classroom community mindful of student engagement, learning, and positive relationships.
Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
4/5/18



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