Designed for language arts and content-area teachers, this course focuses on strategies for helping students to master intermediate decoding skills. It emphasizes phonics instruction with respect to students’ stages of reading development and presents ways to group students for effective intervention.

• Use assessments to diagnose students’ decoding needs
• Identify characteristics of effective phonics instruction and incorporate them into daily lessons
• Practice and get feedback on targeted decoding activities and instructional techniques

Course Objectives Course Components Research Base (PDF)

• Francie Alexander
• Phyllis C. Hunter
• Wendy Buchberg
• Linda Diamond
• Dr. Ted Hasselbring