RLR 540 Teaching Content Area Literacy at the Middle and Secondary Level

This course focuses on the development of reading in the middle and secondary grades, particularly reading to learn from expository text materials, digital texts and other media, and on the development of study skills. Teaching methods that develop strategic reading and writing of informational texts and the assimilation and accommodation of new ideas will be explored. The ways that middle and secondary schools can best provide such reading and writing instruction across the curriculum will be examined, as articulated in the Common Core State Standards for Grades 6-12 ELA & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science & Technical Subjects. Pre-requisite(s): None. CO-requisite(s): None. 3 semester hours

Credits

3