Reading Competency 5: Demonstration of Accomplishment

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Reading Competency 5: Demonstration of Accomplishment

• 5.1 Demonstrate ability to administer and integrate assessment, instruction, intervention and differentiation across the components in reading in a comprehensive instructional program.  
• 5.2 Use assessment and data analysis to monitor student progress and inform instruction over time to ensure an increase in learning for all students, including students with identified reading deficiencies and those with characteristics of dyslexia.
• 5.3 Demonstrate evidence-based practices for developing oral/aural language development for all students, including students with identified reading deficiencies and those with characteristics of dyslexia.
• 5.4 Demonstrate evidence-based practices for developing students’ phonological awareness and phonemic awareness for all students, including students with identified reading deficiencies and those with characteristics of dyslexia.  
• 5.5 Demonstrate evidence-based practices for developing phonics skills and word recognition for all students, including students with identified reading deficiencies and those with characteristics of dyslexia.  
• 5.6 Demonstrate evidence-based practices for developing reading fluency and reading endurance for all students, including students identified with reading deficiencies and those with characteristics of dyslexia.
• 5.7 Demonstrate evidence-based practices for developing both academic and domain-specific vocabulary for all students, including students with identified reading deficiencies and those with characteristics of dyslexia.
• 5.8 Demonstrate evidence-based practices for facilitating reading comprehension for all students, including students with identified reading deficiencies and those with characteristics of dyslexia.  
• 5.9 Demonstrate evidence-based comprehension practices for developing students’ higher order thinking to enhance comprehension for all students, including students with identified reading deficiencies and those with characteristics of dyslexia.
• 5.10 Demonstrate evidence-based practices to facilitate students’ monitoring and self-correcting in reading for all students, including students with identified reading deficiencies and those with characteristics of dyslexia.
• 5.11 Demonstrate evidence-based practices for developing all students’ background knowledge to enhance the ability to read critically, including students with characteristics of reading difficulties and dyslexia.
• 5.12 Demonstrate differentiation of instruction for all students utilizing increasingly complex text.  
• 5.13 Demonstrate skill in utilizing assessment data and instruction with English learners from diverse backgrounds and at varying English proficiency levels.
• 5.14 Create an information intensive environment that includes print, non-print, multimedia and digital texts.
• 5.15 Use a variety of instructional practices to provide relevant and purposeful instruction to students in reading.
• 5.16 Demonstrate the ability to engage and support caregivers and families in their children and adolescents’ reading development.
• 5.17 Demonstrate the ability to communicate (orally and in writing) the meaning of reading assessment data with students, caregivers, teachers and teacher leaders.  
• 5.18 Demonstrate intentional explicit, systematic and sequential writing instruction to improve decoding skills.

3 Lesson Plans - Learner creates a standards-based plan for instruction.
3 Reflections - Learner synthesizes previous knowledge and course content in order to develop a narrative response.
1 Video Submission - Learner demonstrates implementation of course content by providing a video submission of a specified activity.