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RDLA345 Early Literacy Learning (K-2) - Part 1
- Subjects:
- Reading/Language Arts
- Grades:
- Kindergarten-2nd
- Hours:
- 30
Learn about the components of a balanced literacy program through an early literacy framework that incorporates reading and writing as integral skills and represents a wide array of literacy activities. Designed for literacy teachers, grades K-2, this course is also valuable for reading specialists and those who teach older students struggling with reading and writing.
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RDLA350 Early Literacy Learning (K-2) - Part 2
- Subjects:
- Reading/Language Arts
- Grades:
- Kindergarten-2nd
- Hours:
- 30
In this course, we focus on implementing a balanced literacy program using an early literacy framework. You'll practice balanced literacy techniques including read-aloud, shared reading, word wall, and interactive writing strategies, and learn how technology can help you differentiate instruction.
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RDLA363 Supporting ELLs: Oral Language Development
- Subjects:
- Reading/Language Arts
- Grades:
- Preschool-3rd
- Hours:
- 10
This unique two-session course uses material derived from RDLA 200: Facilitating Oral Language Development to offer an intensive focus on the needs of English Language Learners. The course provides both theoretical and practical information to apply in helping non-native English speakers develop language skills, meet learning standards, and experience success in school.
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RDLA366 Supporting ELLs: Assessing Language Development
- Subjects:
- Reading/Language Arts
- Grades:
- Preschool-3rd
- Hours:
- 10
Classroom assessment can promote language development and mastery for English language learners. Explore how to use classroom assessments effectively and strategically as tools to diagnose learning issues and as springboards to more effective educational practices, curricula, and strategies that help students learn.
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RDLA373 Supporting ELLs: Vocabulary Development in Grades PreK-3
- Subjects:
- Reading/Language Arts
- Grades:
- Preschool-3rd
- Hours:
- 10
Discover the practices that best promote vocabulary development for English language learners. Learn why vocabulary development is so crucial to ELLs' success in school. In this course, you'll explore the similarities and differences between the strategies for teaching vocabulary development for ELLs and those for native English speakers. We'll also explore the role that knowledge of the student's primary language plays in successful English vocabulary development.
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RDLA376 Supporting ELLs: Reading Fluency in Grades 2-5
- Subjects:
- Reading/Language Arts
- Grades:
- 2nd-5th
- Hours:
- 10
Reading fluency strategies are an important tool in teaching students to read, especially (ELLs) who may be struggling readers. This course will explore what reading fluency is and the importance of reading fluency to the literacy development of ELLs. Learners will have the opportunity to implement a reading fluency assessment and then use the results for the basis of a discussion on how reading fluency assessment informs instruction. Learners will also complete a course project where they develop a Fluency Action Plan specifically designed for English language learners. The action plan incorporates various reading fluency instructional strategies, integrates technology, and lists a variety of relevant resources.
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RDLA383 Supporting ELLs: Writing Development in Grades PreK-3
- Subjects:
- Reading/Language Arts
- Grades:
- Preschool-3rd
- Hours:
- 10
"What classroom practices best promote ELLs' writing development?" Develop an understanding and identify the specific needs of ELLs in writing, by integrating research on how writing and language develops in ELLs with an understanding of the considerations that need to be made for ELLs. These considerations include state, national, and local standards and the use of assessment as a tool for informing instruction. Discuss strategies to support ELLs' writing development, including group lessons in which writing and spelling are modeled for students, programs found to be effective for ELLs, and the use of technology. The course project enables learners to synthesize the information they have learned in the course in the form of an e-article that they will post to an educational blog or a multimedia presentation as part of an online presentation tool.
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SCIE120 Scientific Inquiry and Field Work: Discovering with Technology for Grades 6-8
- Subjects:
- Science, Instructional Technology, Instructional Strategies
- Grades:
- 6th-8th
- Hours:
- 30
Keep your students engaged by incorporating current technology into your science curriculum. Visit Web sites that enable students to collect and analyze data using online equipment and learn high-tech strategies that allow them to record and analyze information, investigate the results, and share their findings. Then, design a unit plan for an ecosystem field trip.
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SCIE125 Fostering Cooperative Learning, Inquiry, and Critical Thinking in Elementary Science
- Subjects:
- Science, Instructional Technology, Instructional Strategies
- Grades:
- 1st-4th
- Hours:
- 30
Learn to meet national science standards by helping students develop the skills necessary to analyze ideas, think critically, and communicate clearly. Create lessons and activities that support collaboration, inquiry, and critical thinking.
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SCIE130 Fostering Collaboration, Inquiry, and Critical Thinking in Middle School Science
- Subjects:
- Science, Instructional Technology, Instructional Strategies
- Grades:
- 5th-8th
- Hours:
- 30
Science can engage and encourage students to think critically and logically. In this course, you will learn to integrate technology into the classroom to encourage students to ask questions, collaborate with others, and explore and evaluate data. Discover software and Web activities designed to help your students organize and consolidate their thinking and analyze ideas clearly.
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