Literacy in the Content Area

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This course explores to build literacy in the content area, grades 5-12. Issues discussed include strategies for building reading comprehension, constructing meaning, and building fluency through the use of non-fiction selections in the content areas. Approaches for developing skills in vocabulary, study skills, listening, writing, and speaking are examined throughout all disciplines. The course includes an analysis of reading-writing tasks on state/local exams in addition to procedures to develop parallel tasks in the classroom. Current scoring/assessment practices of the NYS ELA: 4th, 8th are examined. Regents exams are addressed, as well as the exploration of diagnostic, informal reading inventories, and the use of literacy portfolios at the intermediate and secondary levels.