Module 1: Overview and Self-Assessment      

Module 2: Emergent Oral & Written Language
                Development      

Module 3: Approaches to Building Oral &
                Written Language   

Module 4: Approaches to Building Phonological
               Awareness & Knowledge of the
               Alphabetic Principle    

Module 5: Writing as a Component of Emergent
                Oral & Written Language Development      

Module 6: The National Reading Panel & Students
                with Significant Disabilities   

Module 7: Teaching Vocabulary and
                 Text Comprehension

Module 8: Teaching Phonemic Awareness &
                Phonics: Word Identification Beyond
                Functional Sight Words  

Module 9:  Fluency without Oral Reading   

Module 10: Wrapping it Up with a Change of
                 Practice Plan   

The modules in this series were
designed for use by network members
at the 20 education service centers in
Texas who are part of the Three Low
Incidence Disabilities Statewide
Leadership Function. The purpose
of these modules are designed to
meet the training needs of teachers
of students with the three low incidence
disabilities: students with severe
cognitive disabilities, students who are
medically fragile; and students with
deafblindness.

The modules can be used together as
part of training delivered across several
days or as ten separate modules
delivered over a more extended period
of time. The content of each module
reflects current research-based
understandings of literacy as it relates
to students of all ages (3-21) with low
incidence disabilities and the Texas
Essential Knowledge and Skills.

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