Instruction: of Students with Severe Learning Disabilities in Literacy, White River Junction, Day 1 of 2
- Course Number: INS2
- Date: March 12, 2010
- Time: 8:30 AM-4:00 PM
- Location: Comfort Inn
- Address: 56 Ralph Lehman Drive
- City: White River Junction
- State: VT
- Cost: $325
- Instructor: Jackie Earle-Cruickshanks and Juliet King
This 16 hour course is designed for special educators who are interested in fine-tuning their literacy instruction for those 2-5 % of learners who make slow progress in developing literacy skills. The content addresses instruction for those students with severe learning disabilities who need intensive instruction in basic reading skills, spelling, fluency work, reading comprehension, vocabulary, and written expression. This course demonstrates how to create intervention plans incorporating a variety of instructional programs focusing on individualized instructional needs, rather than using one program that assumes all students will master their skills through the same programmatic implementation.
In this course participants will:
- Gain understanding of core cognitive deficits and how they impact literacy needs for students with LD
- Learn about effective interventions for students with double deficits
- Obtain a scope and sequence in basic reading skills, fluency, reading comprehensive and written expression, with critiques of common programs in all areas of literacy
- Learn how to fold fluency work into most aspects of instruction
- Obtain information about ongoing, formative assessment with this intensive literacy work and subsequently learn to make decisions about when to move between programs for parallel skill word and when to keep a student in a program
- Through an overview of best practices, learn to match learners to instruction
This session is designed to support students across Tiers 2 and 3.