LITERACY INSTRUCTION FOR DIVERSE
EDSP 6010 | 3.0 Credits | GR
PREREQUISITE: EDSP5020, GRADE OF C OR BETTER
This graduate course focuses on how processing differences affect literacy, and how to provide the explicit, systematic instruction needed by diverse learners. The course will provide research-based recommendations for instruction in writing and the five essential components of reading as well as measures to assess and monitor students’ progress. MAT candidates will learn to evaluate instructional effectiveness and adapt instruction, how to differentiate instruction for diverse groups of students, and how to provide differentiated instruction through a Response to Intervention and Instruction (RTII) model. Practice opportunities will be provided for application of course concepts.