ELEM 341 - Reading Assessment and Instruction

• 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.