144 Results found
RDLA192 Teaching Narrative and Expository Text Comprehension
- Subjects:
- Reading/Language Arts
- Grades:
- 4th-6th
- Hours:
- 45
Learn proven comprehension assessment techniques that will enable you to plan appropriate instruction for your 4th- to 6th-graders. Develop narrative and expository text lesson plans that use a collaborative teaching approach for direct comprehension instruction.
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RDLA195 Teaching Reading Fluency
- Subjects:
- Reading/Language Arts
- Grades:
- 2nd-5th
- Hours:
- 30
A fluent reader is more confident and successful. Learn quantitative and qualitative techniques to assess and improve students' fluency, and discover ways technology can foster students' fluency progress. Apply practical, research-based strategies that leverage trusted PBS resources to help parents make the home-to-school connection. This course is also ideal for teachers who work with older, struggling readers. Content aligns with the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Standards 1, 2, 3, 4, and 12.
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RDLA200 Facilitating Oral Language Development
- Subjects:
- Reading/Language Arts
- Grades:
- Preschool-3rd
- Hours:
- 30
Blending both theoretical and practical information about oral language development for students PreK 3, this course will introduce you to proven ways to assess students' oral language skills and will give you the opportunity to practice strategies for teaching vocabulary to young students. The course also covers tactics for differentiating instruction to meet the needs of diverse students.
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RDLA205 Effective Writing Instruction
- Subjects:
- Reading/Language Arts
- Grades:
- Preschool-Kindergarten
- Hours:
- 30
Even the youngest students can develop early writing skills. This course explores the theory and practice of writing instruction and covers practical strategies to support students' writing development including modeled writing, shared writing, interactive writing, and independent writing. You'll practice to improve your own teaching and assessment of students' writing products.
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RDLA210 Effective Writing Instruction
- Subjects:
- Reading/Language Arts
- Grades:
- 1st-3rd
- Hours:
- 30
Learn to use Writing Workshops to teach the theory and practice of writing to your early elementary students. From setting up and maintaining a Writing Workshop to analyzing obstacles to good student writing, you'll have the opportunity to share insights with online colleagues. You'll write a synthesis paper or design a class Web site to accompany a Writing Workshop program as your final project.
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RDLA215 Effective Writing Instruction
- Subjects:
- Reading/Language Arts
- Grades:
- 4th-6th
- Hours:
- 30
Discover the course that previous participants have called "a real eye-opener with very practical information." Focusing on research paper writing, you'll learn to find topics that capture and maintain the interest of young adolescents. In addition, the course explores the connection between reading and writing, and how technology supports writing, revising, storing, and publishing a research paper.
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RDLA220 Teaching Writing in the Content Areas
- Subjects:
- Mathematics, Science, Reading/Language Arts
- Grades:
- 6th-12th
- Hours:
- 30
You can bring writing into your classroom in all content areas with a practical plan developed in this course. Covering the research basis for writing across the curriculum, the course will help you teach students effective writing processes, including finding the time to write. You'll learn sound techniques for evaluating writing skills and discover proven ways to promote writing to students.
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RDLA225 Teaching Writing in Science
- Subjects:
- Science, Reading/Language Arts
- Grades:
- 6th-12th
- Hours:
- 30
Learn to assess your students' understanding of science concepts by integrating writing instruction into your curriculum. Help your students engage in persuasive writing tasks, and develop an instructional plan over the length of the course for using writing effectively in your classroom. Put your plan into action and gain insight from the experience.
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RDLA230 Teaching Writing in Mathematics
- Subjects:
- Mathematics, Reading/Language Arts
- Grades:
- 6th-12th
- Hours:
- 30
Integrating writing into mathematics presents both challenges and opportunities. Discover the tools you need to make it work. Use a mathography lesson to gain insight into your students' attitudes and learn how to help your students organize and communicate mathematical concepts, and interact with others. Then, develop a plan of action for implementing writing in a mathematics program.
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RDLA340 Teaching Reading in the Content Areas
- Subjects:
- Mathematics, Science, Reading/Language Arts
- Grades:
- 3rd-12th
- Hours:
- 30
You can master new strategies to address students' needs in various grade levels. From exploring environments that promote effective learning to examining the skills students need to read content material successfully, this course will introduce you to essential techniques that support more independent reading and learning.
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