Adolescent Literacy Instruction

Catalog description

This course focuses on developing effective instructional practices that promote the ongoing development of adolescent literac(ies) including essential reading skills, critical literacy skills, multimodal literacy skills, and disciplinary literacy skills. Foundational in the premise that all adolescents have and can develop a variety of literacies that facilitate reading the word to read the world, teacher candidates will develop a repertoire of strategies for building essential reading skills and developing academic language informed by CCSS and WIDA standards. They will also learn how to bring together their content knowledge, understandings of academic language and literacy, criticality, and the importance of using multimodal texts to create lessons that address the needs of all learners, including emerging bilinguals.