ESS518 Reading Difficulties: Prevention and Intervention (8)
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This subject focuses on the prevention of reading difficulties in the primary school years and in designing interventions for individual children. The subject content is grounded in the scientifically based reading research and provides a specific focus on the teaching of reading integrating the 5 big ideas (phonological awareness, alphabetic principle, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension). Explicit teaching is the pedagogy for instruction used in the teaching of reading in this subject. There is a specific emphasis on assessment and the role of careful instructional design and delivery in the teaching of children who are at risk for reading difficulties. Students will apply their understanding of assessment, explicit teaching, and instructional decision making. Students will be required to work with a child while undertaking this subject. |
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+ Subject Availability Modes and Location
| Session 1 | | Distance | Bathurst Campus |
Continuing students should consult the SAL for current offering details: ESS518
Where differences exist between the Handbook and the SAL, the SAL should be taken as containing the correct subject offering details.
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Subject information| Duration | Grading System | School: |
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| One session | HD/FL | School of Teacher Education |
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| ESS407 |
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Learning OutcomesUpon successful completion of this subject, students should:
- identify a child’s relative risk for reading difficulties using a reliable curriculum-based measure;
-administer an assessment of decoding skills and identify a child’s present level of performance;
- place children in reading material at their instructional level; and,
- plan a weekly overview of the explicit teaching of reading integrating phonemic awareness, letter-sound correspondence, phonic or structural analysis, word lists, irregular words, vocabulary instruction, passage reading and comprehension.
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SyllabusThe subject will cover the following topics:
- Scientifically based reading research.
- Identification of students at risk for and experiencing reading difficulties using reliable assessment.
- Placing students in appropriate reading materials.
- Assessing primary and intermediate phonic knowledge.
- Explicit teaching of reading (Direct Instruction).
- Designing instruction for students at risk for reading difficulties.
- Teaching phonemic awareness.
- Teaching alphabetic principle (phonics).
- Teaching accuracy and fluency with connected text.
- Teaching vocabulary.
- Teaching comprehension.
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The information contained in the 2016 CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: 06 September 2016. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.
