EDRD 6529: Learning to Read: Teaching Practices for Early Reading (2024-2025)

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Explores how students connect oral language to written language through the development of phonemic awareness, phonics, decoding, and fluency. Examines characteristics of learners and explores how specific groups (multilingual learners, students with exceptionalities) may experience development differently. Critically explores research, methods of teaching, and specific curricular approaches in the areas of phonemic awareness, phonics, decoding, and fluency. Gives attention to assessment of phonemic awareness, phonics, decoding, and fluency, as well as how to provide differentiation and support for students who may struggle in these areas. Typically offered: Autumn.