ED PS 6713 - Literacy Acquisition Theory and Instruction

This is a graduate-level course in methods for teaching reading and writing. Its purpose is to provide practicing teachers with an instructional framework for understanding literacy acquisition for K-12 students. Specially, the course will focus on explicit instruction related to: (a) phonemic awareness;(b) the alphabetic principle, decoding, advanced decoding, irregular word reading, and spelling; and (c) word-and text-level fluency in the areas of rate, accuracy, and prosody. Practicing teachers will increase their knowledge and skill in applying instructional practices that support students’ literacy development.