RLR503 Teaching Content Area and Advanced Reading

Candidates in this course will focus on the development of mature reading for their students, particularly reading to learn from expository text materials, digital texts and other media. The course also centers on teaching methods that develop strategic reading of informational texts, together with research and study skills. The ways that middle and secondary schools can best provide such reading instruction across the curriculum will be considered. 3 semester hours Prerequisite(s): An undergraduate or graduate literacy methods course such as RLL480A, RLL538/539 or consent of instructor.