Per WGU's published description, D689 enhances a candidate's skills in identifying and addressing literacy challenges in all student populations, including students with dyslexia, through Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3 multi-tiered systems of support and assessment. The course reviews the science of reading associated with a wide range of assessments and techniques used to evaluate reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills. Students learn to administer and interpret assessments, using the data to identify specific literacy needs and learning gaps, and a significant focus sits on designing and implementing targeted intervention strategies in phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary development, with actionable steps to monitor student progress.
Six catalog tables carry D689. The B.A. Elementary Education and the B.A. Educational Studies in Elementary Education schedule it in term 6, beside the D688 literature course; the four special education versions place it in term 7. The M.A. Teaching tracks carry a graduate twin with the identical name, D697 (EDUC 5088, 2 CUs), with the catalog printing the same description text for both versions, so the code on your program plan decides which one you owe. Message us the code and where you stand, and we quote a flat price in writing.