Content Area Literacy.

Catalog description

This course is designed to provide teacher candidates with and understanding of reading, writing, and critical thinking processes within the content areas. The purpose of the course is to allow students to gain the understanding that content can be utilized to learn literacy skills while literacy skills can be used to learn content. Teacher candidates will gain knowledge and skills that will help students learn specific content more effectively from expository texts. This course will reflect the research-based practice in the areas of content literacy as well as differentiated instruction student diversity, and new literacies. Prerequisite: Level I admission to Teacher Education, EDU 382 . Graduate credit requirements are described in the course syllabus. If this class is taken at the 500 level, it is a graduate course and expectations for student performance are at an advanced level. Evaluation of course requirements is more rigorous than at the lower division section of this course.