This course introduces practical, effective ways to help children with alphabetic recognition, automaticity with sound and word recognition, phonics, and getting meaning from text.

• Assess students’ basic fluency skills.
• Administer and interpret an oral fluency assessment.
• Apply research-based techniques for explicit, direct teaching of fluency, phonics, and vocabulary.

Course Objectives Course Components Research Base (PDF)

• Dr. Maryanne Wolf
• Francie Alexander
• Phyllis C. Hunter
• Wendy Buchberg
• Linda Diamond