This course focuses on practical strategies that all secondary teachers can implement to help striving readers and all students improve their reading and master critical content across subject areas.

• Use assessments and student data to differentiate instruction.
• Implement research-based strategies to help students comprehend content-area textbooks and build academic vocabulary.
• Improve reading comprehension through explicit decoding and fluency instruction.

Course Objectives Course Components Research Base (PDF)

• Dr. Ted Hasselbring
• Dr. Kate Kinsella
• Francie Alexander
• Carlton P. Jordan Jr.