Abstract

This subject focuses on the prevention of reading difficulties in the primary school years and in designing interventions for individual children. The subject content is grounded in the scientifically based reading research and provides a specific focus on the teaching of reading integrating the 5 big ideas (phonological awareness, alphabetic … For more content click the Read More button below.

Syllabus

Reading RiskAssessing DecodingPlacementPlanning and Designing InstructionLesson DesignDifferentiating Lesson DesignTheory and Practice

Assessment items

1. Identifying Reading Difficulties
2. Planning Instruction for Struggling Readers

Learning outcomes

Upon successful completion of this subject, students should:
1.
be able to identify a child's relative risk for reading difficulties using a reliable curriculum-based measure;
2.
be able to administer an assessment of decoding skills and identify a child's present level of performance;
3.
be able to match student reading level with appropriate materials;
4.
be able to plan a weekly overview of the explicit teaching of reading integrating phonemic awareness, letter-sound correspondence, phonic or structural analysis, word lists, irregular words, vocabulary instruction, passage reading and comprehension;
5.
be able to build a direct instruction lesson to teach reading skills;
6.
be able to differentiate a direct instruction lesson to teach reading skills; and,
7.
be able to reflect upon and justify their design and delivery from a theory to practice perspective. This includes the bigger picture implications for the quality reading instruction at scale in the school or setting.