Multilingual/English Learners and Dyslexia
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This is an online course.
Enroll and complete this course on your own time to earn a certificate of completion.
Overview
This module provides specific examples of how to use students’ knowledge of their native language in learning to read in English, and includes discussion of the ELA/ELD Framework, culturally responsive teaching, Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and screening. Throughout the module emphasizes the importance of integrating oral English proficiency with English language literacy development. The module concludes with an example of an Equity-based Language Assessment and an accompanying activity with resources.
TPEs Addressed:
- TPE 7.2 - Plan and Implement Evidence-based Literacy Instruction (UDL, MTSS, California Dyslexia Guidelines)
- TPE 7.5 - Foundational Skills
- TPE 7.6 - Meaning Making
- TPE 7.7 - Language Development
- TPE 7.10 - Monitor students’ progress using formative assessment practices (Screening, English learners, collaboration)
Learning objectives
- Understand widely accepted terminology that describes the linguistic experiences and language proficiency of multilingual/English learners
- Embrace linguistic differences as assets that multilingual learners bring to their own language and literacy learning, as well as to their classrooms, schools, and communities
- Leverage students’ native language knowledge and skills across all linguistic and literacy-related domains (phonology, orthography, morphology, semantics, syntax, and pragmatics) in supporting the development of oral English language and English language literacy
- Identify principles underlying effective, research-based, core language and literacy instruction that support the oral language and literacy development of multilingual/English learners through implementation of the California ELA/ELD Framework, asset-based and inclusive practices, and the screening of learners for risk of reading difficulties, such as dyslexia
- Understand how to identify and support multilingual/English learners who may be at-risk for dyslexia or other language-based learning disabilities through a Multitiered System of Support (MTSS) that provides small-group instruction and more intensive language and literacy intervention
- Identify resources that educators can share with one another and with families related to multilingual/English learners’ language development, literacy development and language-based learning disabilities, such as dyslexia
Added on 10/22/2024 ·
Last updated on 10/22/2024