Please read this description carefully before registering.
Online Group Meetings
Prior to the first group meeting, you will receive an email with the link to join the live online orientation and meetings. Information and dates on this syllabus are subject to change.
Course Expectations
In addition to online group meetings, participants read and study online course content, complete required assessment tasks and communicate with a facilitator regularly. A detailed course syllabus will be provided to all participants and will outline the pace of the course.
Course Description
This course was designed to provide a deeper understanding of the process of reading comprehension, evidence-based instructional practices for teaching reading comprehension, and to introduce a variety of technology supports and tools that educators and students can use to enhance the understanding of text. This knowledge building will enable you to recognize the complexity of reading comprehension, where students may need support in acquiring grade-level content, and practices and supports educators can provide to support students.
Unit 1: Research, Reading Difficulties, and Resources
Unit 2: How to Create a Differentiated Environment and Design Data Based Decision to Inform Instruction
Unit 3: Explicit, Systematic, and Multisensory Instruction to Differentiate for Students with Reading Difficulties
Unit 4: Differentiating Phonological Awareness Instruction for Students Experiencing Reading Difficulties
Unit 5: Differentiating Phonics Instruction for Students Experiencing Reading Difficulties
Unit 6: Assessing and Building Reading Fluency for Students Experiencing Reading Difficulties
Unit 7: Teaching Vocabulary Explicitly for Students Experiencing Reading Difficulties
Unit 8: Explicit Comprehension Instruction for Students Having Reading Difficulties
Inservice Credits
Participants with questions about how this PLA course will count towards specific recertification requirements should contact their district recertification office or local PLA Coordinator prior to registration. FDLRS does not report inservice credits directly to FDOE. If a participant is not currently employed in education in Florida, the participant must contact their former school district or private school agency to determine if they are able to submit inservice credits to FDOE.
Important Details
- If a course does not meet the minimum number of participants, an alternative PLA course will be offered to all registered participants.
- All Discussion posts, Check Your Understanding Quizzes, and Dropbox Assessment Tasks are due by the due date provided in the syllabus.
- Active course participation is required. Active participation includes logging into the course regularly to read course content, complete required tasks, track your grades and read/respond to feedback. If a participant is inactive in the course, the may be removed from the course roster.
- The PLA facilitator reserves the right to change this syllabus at any time. Enrolled participants will be notified if changes are made.