READ 6604 - Supporting Struggling Adolescent Readers* (3 semester credits)

3 semester credits

Adolescents today must engage with increasingly complex texts in the content areas. Education professionals need the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to help all students meet these literacy demands, especially those who struggle with reading and literacy tasks. In this course, education professionals learn formal and informal ways to assess students' literacy development and learning achievement and use that assessment data to inform instruction. Through coursework, education professionals have opportunities to examine progress monitoring practices and Response to Intervention (RTI) implementation. Education professionals explore the role of motivation in literacy and learning and consider the importance of academic language for learning, college, and career.

*Students may take this as a non-degree course, which means they do not have to be enrolled in a program. Contact an enrollment specialist [1-866-492-5336 (U.S.);1-443-627-7222 (toll)] for more information or visit School of Lifelong Learning for more information.