Teaching Content Literacy

Catalog description

The course emphasizes techniques for using reading and writing as tools for the acquisition of new content in any given discipline. It focuses on areas of general literacy skills, prior knowledge of content, content-specific literacy skills, and understanding of the nature of reading instruction in secondary schools. Reading difficulties and adaptation of materials and teaching methods for content area instruction are also addressed. Additional emphases include English as a Second Language (ESL)/English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teaching and learning theories, and various methods and techniques of ESL/EFL instruction in the classroom.