Language & Literacy Studies

• WED LS 790: Literary Assessment to Inform Instruction
  Explores the theoretical underpinnings of literacy assessments and ways to use formal and informal assessments to identify learner's strengths and needs. Emphasizes assessment practices that are grounded in teaching interventions that provide insight into instructional practices that support students. 4 cr. Either sem.
• WED LS 792: Equitable Literacy Assessment and Instruction: Disciplinary, Digital, and Multiple Literacies
  Focuses on understanding and supporting literacy development with a focus on disciplinary and digital literacies and students' multiple literacies within and beyond school. Emphasizes equitable literacy assessment and instruction across learning contexts. Includes examination and discussion of theoretical, empirical, and practical readings.
• WED LS 793: Practice-Based Experience in Literacy: Practicum
  Graduate Prerequisites: SEDLS763 - This course focuses on the application of research and theory to practice in both clinic and school-based instructional settings. Graduate students will continue to develop and apply knowledge of best practices in literacy assessment and instructional intervention to their work with students who struggle in learning to read and write. Students will administer and interpret results of various screening and diagnostic instruments during individual and small group intervention sessions. Students will also plan and implement effective instructional interventions based on children’s identified areas of strength and need in essential literacy domains in both clinic and school settings. As a final project, students will prepare and share with the child’s parents, classroom teacher, and reading specialist a final case report that summarizes assessments (e.g., formative, screening, and diagnostic) and instructional interventions with evidence of student progress. Video analysis and students’ written reflections will be integrated throughout the semester to encourage a reflective stance toward instruction and to further support graduate students’ professional growth.
• WED LS 801: Design-Based Research as Educational Inquiry, Part I
  This course is part of a two-semester sequence. Students will a) develop a critical understanding of different approaches to design-based research, including their political and ethical commitments, and b) collaboratively design and carry out a small-scale design study. 4 cr. 1st sem.
• WED LS 802: Design-Based Research as Educational Inquiry, Part II
  This course is part of a two-semester sequence. Students will a) develop a critical understanding of different approaches to design-based research, including their political and ethical commitments, and b) collaboratively design and carry out a small-scale design study. 4 cr. 2nd sem.