Teaching Secondary ELA & Social Studies Using Primary Sources, Memoir & Autobiography

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This course prepares future language arts and social studies educators to teach structured literacy effectively at the secondary level, with a focus on social studies content for cross-disciplinary instruction. Students will explore reading development and the five essential components of reading—phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, comprehension, and fluency—with particular attention to systematic instruction of vocabulary, comprehension, and fluency strategies relevant to secondary texts. Through engagement with primary and secondary sources, memoirs/autobiographies, and historical fiction, students will develop instructional approaches to support real-world reading applications, text analysis, inquiry, and historical thinking.