Shifting Your Focus to the Science of Reading

Goals and Objectives of this Course:

• Use provided prompts specific to research-based reading instruction, to describe assumptions and insights of practitioners, researchers and self, including how the information relates to professional educational practice. 
• Implement high-leverage practices to support oral language development, a key component for comprehension.
• Design phonemic awareness activities that support segmenting, blending, and manipulating phonemes.
• Implement a phonics lesson structure that emphasizes mastery rather than exposure.
• In collaboration with a colleague, evaluate or design a systematic phonics scope and sequence including instructional routines and formative assessment opportunities.
• Apply new methods of matching texts to beginning readers that scaffold decoding and challenge the status quo.