Course Goal:
To provide paraprofessionals & home school instructors with an opportunity to gain practical understandings of research based reading instruction and to apply those understandings.

Objectives:

• To learn the definition of research based reading instruction 
• Understand, identify, and use systematic and explicit instructional models.
• Gain basic knowledge of the parts of research based reading instruction.
• Gain basic knowledge of different methods of instruction and a variety of reading programs
• Effectively adapt teaching style & program parts to meet the needs of children in reading classes.
• Become critical thinkers about research based instruction. 
• To apply knowledge about research based reading instruction in interaction with students