COURSE UNIT TITLE

: ASSESSING AND DEVELOPING READING AND WRITING SKILLS OF INDIVIDUALS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ÖEP 6050 ASSESSING AND DEVELOPING READING AND WRITING SKILLS OF INDIVIDUALS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 8

Offered By

Special Education

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR SAFIYE SUNAY YILDIRIM DOĞRU

Offered to

Special Education

Course Objective

The purposes of this course are to explain the importance of reading and writing skills for individuals with disabilities, to define components of reading and writing skills, to develop assessment tools in order to evaluate reading and writing skills, to discuss teaching approaches used for reading and writing, and to explain scientifically approved interventions used for developing reading and writing skills of individuals with disabilities

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Describe the importance of development of reading and writing skills for individuals with disabilities.
2   Describe the link between language skills, emergent literacy skills, and reading writing skills.
3   Plan interventions to develop reading and writing skills by considering the needs of an individual with special need.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The importance of reading and writing skills for individuals with special needs. The current situation with respect to reading and writing performance of students with special needs.
2 The effects of language and emergent literacy skills on developing reading and writing skills.
3 Phonological awareness, definition, importance, and development assessing phonological awareness and scientifically approved interventions.
4 Phonics and decoding, definition, importance, and development assessing phonics and decoding skills and scientifically approved interventions.
5 Reading fluency, definition, importance, and development assessing reading fluency skills and scientifically approved interventions.
6 Vocabulary knowledge, definition, importance, and development assessing vocabulary knowledge and scientifically approved interventions.
7 Reading comprehension, definition, importance, and development assessing reading comprehension and scientifically approved interventions.
8 Midterm exam
9 The importance of developing strategic reading for students with special needs
10 Components of writing skills development and importance.
11 Pre-writing skills and practices used for developing pre-writing skills.
12 Assessing form of writing and scientifically based approaches to improve form of writing
13 Assessing form of writing and scientifically based approaches to improve form of writing
14 Teaching strategic writing to improve expression
15 Teaching strategic writing to improve expression
16 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Lecture notes

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, Discussion, Question & Answer, Case Study,

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTEG MIDTERM GRADE
2 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTEG * 0.40 + FCG * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTEG * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

%40 Midterm Exam
%60 Final Exam

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Attendance is obligatory

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

sunay.dogru@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Tuesday 13:00 17:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 8 112
Preparation for midterm exam 1 20 20
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 198

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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