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This course is for GaTAPP candidates only.

The classes will be in person at SGTC on 9-21, 10-19, 11-9, 1-25, 2-15, 3-14 from 9:00-3:00.

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This course will level the playing field by providing participants with training on developmentally-appropriate evidence-based literacy instruction.

Learning Outcomes:

At the conclusion of this course, participants will be able to:

1. Identify the five essential components of evidence-based reading instruction.

2. Describe how to provide explicit instruction in phonological and phonemic awareness.

3. Identify how instruction in phonics and irregular word reading contributes to automatic word reading.

4. Explain how to provide explicit instruction in multisyllabic word reading.

5. Describe the relationship between reading fluency and text comprehension.

6. Understand the importance of vocabulary knowledge to reading comprehension

7. Understand the factors that contribute to and affect reading comprehension.

8. Learn the structures of literary and informational text and how to use that knowledge to improve comprehension.

9. Become familiar with the content and administration of assessments in phonological awareness, decoding and word attack, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.

10. Understand how to use reading assessments as a basis for instructional decision making.

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