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Using Diagnostic Assessments to Differentiate Literacy Instruction
Language and Literacy, Assessment Strategies | K-6
Reading is foundational for success in school and adult life. However, many students show a complete lack of interest in reading and struggle with key skills such as phonics, decoding, vocabulary, and fluency. It’s essential for teachers to be able to diagnose these issues and provide the right support to create strong readers.
In this course, you’ll learn how to evaluate K–6 students’ needs in reading and develop a research-based and workable plan for growing their skills. Through the use of diagnostic assessments, you’ll monitor students’ knowledge and conceptual understanding throughout a reading program. Then, based on the assessment results, you’ll learn how to develop your students’ skills by choosing the right intervention strategies and reading materials.
Using the techniques from this course, you will be able to create an equitable reading program that supports students of every background and skill level, including those with learning, memory, and attention difficulties.
Connections to Practice
This course provides the following classroom connections:
- Methods and supports to determine student reading needs and growth
- Ways to provide support for student reading difficulties
- Strategies that encourage continuous progress monitoring and student growth
- Tools to find appropriate student reading materials
- Techniques to engage students in the reading process
- Understanding of the diagnostic assessment and differentiation process
Course Objectives
In this course, participants will:
- Develop a plan to support students in building reading skills.
- Evaluate the most appropriate assessment strategy and tools to use for student reading needs.
- Formulate reasons to add or modify your own reading instruction based on research related to student reading skills and needs.
- Generate specific support strategies to use with your own students for intervention of reading needs.
- Determine the types of support materials and strategies to share with parents to support the students in reading at home.
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