Teaching Foundational Reading Skills (MOOC-Ed)

The core elements of teaching foundational reading to grades K through 3 are: comprehension, fluency, morphology, word recognition, decoding, letter-sound relations, phonological awareness, language, vocabulary, and background knowledge.

Course Objectives

This Teaching Foundational Reading Skills MOOC-Ed follows the Practice Guide in being organized around four major research-based recommendations, with specific classroom how-tos that will help you effectively implement them with your students. After a short Getting Started unit, each of the four major units of the course address one of the following recommendations:

1. Advance students' speaking and listening language skills, including vocabulary knowledge and the use of inferential and narrative "academic" language.

2. Develop students' awareness of the segments of sounds in speech, and how sound segments link to letters.

3. Teach students to decode words, analyze words parts, and write and recognize words.

4. Support students' development of reading accuracy, fluency, and comprehension through reading connected text.