Literacy Instruction for Multilingual Learners

Student Learning Outcomes, Goals, Objectives:

Students successfully completing this course will be able to:

• Understand the foundational knowledge of reading and writing processes and instruction.
• Implement a wide range of instructional practices, approaches, and methods that address reading and writing for multilingual learners.
• Create instructional materials for literacy instruction.
• Interpret assessment data to design individualized literacy instruction.

Course Grading Information:

Activity/Performance Measure	Percentage/Points
Attendance, Participation, and Professionalism	20%
Online Assignments: Completion of online assignments completed outside of Teams meetings	10%
Reading Dialogues: Responses to class readings completed online with a response partner	15%
Teaching and Learning Literacy Project: Planning, teaching and reflecting on teaching	50%
Conference Attendance: Attend a professional conference	5%

Grading Scale:

Percentage	Letter Grade
93-100	A
90-92	A-
87-89	B+
83-86	B
80-82	B-
77-79	C+
73-76	C
70-72	C-
60-69	D
<60	F

Attendance/Participation:

Attendance at all Teams meetings is expected for the full 2 hours. Points will be deducted for each missed meeting or for arriving tardy or leaving early. Students are expected to participate in meetings

Course Materials Purchased by the Students:

Cárdenas-Hagan, E. (Ed.). (2020). Literacy Foundations for English Learners: A comprehensive guide to evidence-based instruction. Brookes Publishing.