Day: Mondays
Time: 5:7:00 pm
CRN: ONC 62104; RTE 62341
Credit hours: 4
Dates: January 20th – March 13th, 2015
Mode: Online
Would you like to learn how to connect reading instruction to reading assessment? Are you searching for a
hands-on experience where you administer reading assessments to students and create and enact an
individualized instructional plan catered specifically for your student? Are you interested in learning the best
practices for phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension instruction? Would you
like to consistently engage in discussions that demonstrate how instruction can be modified to cater to English learners? If your answer to any of the previous questions is “yes,” then Assessment-Based Reading
Instruction is meant for you.
Assessment-Based Reading Instruction is designed to provide you with:
• An overview of the nature of reading difficulties
• Hands-on experience with identifying reading difficulties
• Experience in responding to the findings from assessment of reading difficulties
• Experience with considering assessment and instruction as a holistic, interconnected and individualized
process based on each learner
• Insight into the ways in which linguistic and cultural diversity impact reading assessment
• Insight into the ways in which social factors impact interpretations of the results from reading
assessments
Assessment-Based Reading Instruction is structured such that assessments are all conducted in the first
two weeks of the course followed by instruction based on the findings from these assessments. Scholarly
reading materials will influence your assessment and instructional processes as you progress. Among the
areas we will explore are orthographic development, emergent/early literacy, word study, text complexity,
fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, motivation, linguistically and culturally responsive assessment, highstakes testing, and response to intervention.
