• Scientifically-Based Reading Research (SBRR)
• Gradual Release of Responsibility Model (GRRM)
• Interactive Read Alouds & Think Alouds
• Creating Language Rich Classroom Environments
• Phonological Awareness
• Comprehensive Early Literacy Key Curricular Elements
• Comprehension
• Vocabulary
• Automaticity/Fluency
• Accuracy
• Language Development
• Writing

Convenience – All courses are online and can be accessed from anywhere in the world. While there will be deadlines, you will never be required to login on a specific day or at a specific time.

Relevance – Courses are created by other educational professionals to ensure that the content relates to what you are doing in your classroom.

Job-embedded – All courses feature activities that allow you to apply a technique or strategy with students in your classroom, which translates to immediate results.

Small Class Sizes – Classes contain 5-10 educators per section. This allows discussions to be supportive, logical, and relevant. It also allows our faculty to provide you with the individualized attention that you need in order to become a successful graduate student.

Content for the Early Literacy Series was designed by a panel of highly regarded literacy experts. In developing this content, the panel considered the findings of the National Reading Panel as well as the research and works of noted national experts in the field such as Isabel Beck, Gay Su Pinnell, Irene Fountas, Timothy Shanahan, P. David Pearson, Louisa Moats, Marie Clay, Richard Allington, Michael Pressley, James Flood, Marilyn Adams, Edward Kame’enui, and others. A set of guiding principles of literacy instruction was identified, developed, and woven throughout the courses. The teaching strategies that are addressed in the course are evidence-based practices and the result of scientifically-based research. Additionally, teachers are introduced early on to the Gradual Release of Responsibility Model (GRRM), which also serves as a recurring theme and guiding force throughout the series.