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Literacy Course: How to Promote Reading Comprehension and Fluency

Start date:

2025
Duration: 30 hours / 1 month
Modality: Online

Presentation

This course provides tools for teaching reading effectively, based on evidence from neuroscience. It covers everything from introducing first-grade children to reading by working with predictors of phonological awareness, letters, and writing, to fostering reading fluency and text comprehension. Resources and guidance will also be provided for teaching, monitoring progress, and assessing learning. Participants will be able to design effective instructional sequences grounded in scientific evidence. They will learn to practically implement the methods presented by authors such as Stanislas Dehaene. This program offers a learning environment that combines academic knowledge with practical teaching experience in the classroom. 

Objectives

Participants are expected to be able to:

  • Learning to teach reading.
  • Monitor progress in reading fluency.
  • Promote reading comprehension based on scientific evidence.

Course format

100% online, self-managed, with tutoring.   

Duration: 30 hours spread over one month.

Self-regulated learning through a virtual campus.

Who is it for?

The beneficiaries of this program will be primary school teachers.

Requirements:

Being a teacher and/or principal in primary schools.  

More Information

100% online, self-managed, with tutoring.   

Duration: 30 hours spread over one month.

Self-regulated learning through a virtual campus.

  • Fundamentals of teaching and learning reading: how one learns and how one teaches and learns to read. 
  • Foundations of reading to promote effective literacy. Orality and predictors.
  • Promoting reading fluency in the classroom.
  • The pillars of reading comprehension. How to encourage it through the development of cognitive and linguistic skills.

 

Rufina Pearson

Doctor and Bachelor's degree in Psychopedagogy from UCA. Master's degree in Special Education from the University of British Columbia, Canada. Professor at the Universidad Austral in Language and Literature Didactics. Specialist in learning difficulties, diagnosis, and treatment. Researcher on phonological awareness, reading, mathematics, bilingualism, dyslexia, and dyscalculia. Director of the Jel Learning team. Author of the Jel-Jelk programs and co-author of the Jelmatk program and the Jelmat Test.

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