LRC 528 Read & Write for Adol w/ Disab

This course presents empirically validated instructional procedures to address the significant reading and writing deficits of adolescent students with disabilities, and includes explicit teaching procedures, direct instruction, strategy instruction, and instructional design principles that apply to reading and writing. Methods for designing effective instruction /interventions, informal assessment principles that apply to defining current level of functioning, and monitoring learner progress are emphasized. The course will focus on ways to identify student interests, modify instruction to support content area learning and literacy development for students with disabilities in middle and high school, including selection of appropriate materials, strategies which assist students in reading challenging texts, for different purposes, and a variety of instructional and assessment options that allow students to use areas of strength to improve their literacy performance in content areas. Required field experience is 10 hours. (3 Credits).