Literacy & Lrn Acr Cur w/Field

Catalog description

The focus of this course is the teaching of content area reading and literacy across the curriculum for secondary schools. Topics to be examined include: theory, policy, practice and research in reading in the content area, reading across content areas, disciplinary reading, levels of reading and comprehension, place of reading in school programs, selecting diverse and appropriate curricular materials for enhancing reading that is culturally and linguistically responsive, differentiated reading instruction for diverse learners, general and specific strategies and study skills for content area reading comprehension, vocabulary, fluency, and spelling, critical reading of texts including critical media literacy, adjustment of reading instruction to meet individual learning levels and styles in inclusive classrooms, diagnostic, screening, formative, summative and benchmark reading assessment, and interventions for improving reading comprehension in the content areas for challenged and culturally and linguistically diverse readers. This course includes field experience in 7-12 classrooms.