SPED 3331 Teaching Reading for Students with Disabilities

This course targets evidence-based practices for teaching reading skills to students with disabilities. Specifically, teacher candidates will learn research-validated techniques for teaching preliteracy skills, phonics, vocabulary, reading fluency, and reading comprehension.

 

Lecture Hours

3

Lab Hours

0

Credits

3

Offered

Athens: Fall, Demorest: Fall

Student Learning Outcomes

Upon the completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Identify psychological processes associated with struggling readers (e.g., processing speed, phonology).
2. Identify evidence-based instructional strategies for preliteracy skills to students with disabilities.
3. Identify evidence-based instructional strategies for teaching reading skills (e.g., phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension) to students with disabilities.
4. Identify assessment tools used to design and monitor reading interventions.
5. Design an individualized reading intervention plan that incorporates evidence-based instructional practices.