Evidence-Based Strategies for Struggling Readers in Middle School

Course Objectives:

• Review and discuss the nature of reading comprehension and cognition in adolescents with a focus on struggling readers.
• Analyze evidence-based strategies that work to close reading gaps among students reading below grade-level.
• Analyze assessment data to identify gaps and trends.
• Select from a range of evidence-based strategies those most appropriate in closing achievement gaps and meeting the varied needs of struggling readers.

Hours: 10