Reading in the Content Area

Catalog description

This course has been designed to provide the candidate with the knowledge and strategies for enhancing the literacy skills of learners in the content areas during middle childhood and adolescence education. Candidates are given the opportunity to learn about the process and artifacts of learning in subject matter areas. Candidates learn to use the classroom environment as a dynamic context for constructing discipline related meaning. Technology is integrated throughout the course as it contributes to broadening the scope of content area learning. A major theme through out the course is the needs of diverse learners as these needs effect the knowledge students bring to content literacy. Field observations and experiences are required and integrated into the course.