LITERACIES IN THE CONTENT AREAS

Catalog description

Student acquire professional knowledge of the nature of literacy as it relates to specific content areas. Students understand the critical role that “literacy - including the interpretation and production of texts and representations - plays as vital to participation and learning in different academic disciplines” (International Literacy Association, 2017). Students develop, implement and reflect on a variety of curricular engagements, instructional strategies and assessment procedures for meeting the literacy needs of diverse students. Additionally, students learn how to plan inquiry-based teaching and learning that employs and extends students’ literacy development.