Mount St. Joseph's: Foundations of the Science of Reading

Course Description:  

This professional learning opportunity prepares faculty to deliver revised courses in the 2024-25 school year. Faculty will spend time learning about the reading crisis in Indiana and beyond, MTSS as the framework for implementing the science of reading in schools, the language structures that support literacy, the essential early literacy skills and how they related to each other, foundations of cognitive science that impact learning, and the elements of explicit, systematic, and diagnostic instruction. There will be time to reflect on the connection between the IDA Knowledge and Practice Standards and the course objectives, as well as time to develop assignments and activities to measure student learning of those objectives. 

Course Hours: 11 Contact Hours 

Competencies: 

Knowledge and Practice Standards for Teachers of Reading (2018) 

Standard 1 

Foundations of Literacy Acquisition 

1.3 Understand the reciprocal relationships among phonemic awareness, decoding, word recognition, spelling, and vocabulary knowledge 

1.8. Know phases in the typical developmental progression of oral language, phoneme awareness, decoding skills, printed word recognition, spelling, reading fluency, reading comprehension, and written comprehension 

Standard 3 Assessment 

3.1. 

Understand the differences among and purposes for screening, progress monitoring, diagnostic, and outcome assessments.