LIT 372 - Teaching Elementary School Reading and Language Arts II

1. Analyze and plan for the use of literacy instructional practices for upper elementary students that are culturally-responsive and differentiated, utilizing background knowledge about child development to guide their decision-making. 
2. Apply a variety of teaching strategies and authentic forms of assessment to develop a positive and data-driven teaching-learning environment that is developmentally appropriate for children in the upper elementary grades. 
3. Identify and utilize research-supported and research-based literacy instructional practices, resources and tools that consider the developmental needs of children in the upper elementary grades. 
4. Plan for comprehension strategy instruction utilizing the gradual release of responsibility model that is developmentally appropriate for the upper elementary grades.