Improving Reading in the Content Areas

Catalog description

Content literacy is the ability to use reading and writing to learn subject matter in a given discipline. Making literacy a top priority means reading strategies must be incorporated into courses across the curriculum throughout the middle school and high school years. Content-area teachers are in a strategic position to influence adolescents' use of literacy for academic learning. To this end, every teacher has a role to play. Improving Reading in the Content Area is designed to help teachers understand their roles in building content literacy in their classrooms. Learning activities will direct course participants toward understanding current research and theoretical foundations and applying the concepts to their students. In study-team, discussion and group activities, participants will clarify course concepts and consider how they are or are not appropriate for their own teaching situation.