CONT924: Teaching Students With Complex Literacy Needs

Course Schedule

Course Description

How can schools ensure that all students—especially those at risk of or experiencing literacy difficulties—will learn to read and write? As a classroom teacher or interventionist, how can you respond to the unique needs of students with literacy challenges or specific disabilities that impact their literacy learning? In this course, you’ll deepen your knowledge and understanding of evidence-based practices in teaching foundational skills through structured literacy approaches. You’ll consider both instruction and intervention through the lens of a multi-tiered support system that emphasizes solution seeking and collective responsibility for student outcomes. You’ll explore how instruction can be designed to match a variety of reader profiles, including difficulties or disabilities in word reading, comprehension and/or both. You’ll explore progress monitoring and assessment tools to measure the efficacy of interventions, along with decision-making processes that guide instructional adjustments or intensifications.

What You Will Learn and Do

In this course, you’ll have the opportunity to

• explore current issues and developments in literacy acquisition and intervention for students with diverse literacy needs
• learn about features of multi-tiered support systems that enable access to success-oriented literacy instruction and achievement for all students  
• investigate the role of assessment in the design and implementation of effective literacy instruction and intervention 
• identify ways to structure literacy intervention for learners with diverse or complex needs
• identify evidence-based practices that support growth in essential components of literacy development
• create intervention plans that address components of literacy based on students’ diagnosed literacy needs
• become a discerning consumer of literacy and intervention research and evaluator of literacy practices, programs and resources

Application Requirements

Course Materials

Accommodations

Applicants who require accommodations for a specific learning need (e.g., learning disability) within their AQ/ABQ course, should click here for further information and support.

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Refund Schedule

If you drop a course:

1. by the midpoint of the course, you will receive 100% of your course fee.
2. after the midpoint, before the end of the course, you will receive 50% of your course fee.

For more about our refund policies, visit our Fees & Refunds page.