RESEARCH AND PRACTICE IN ADOLESCENT LITERACY

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Prerequisites: Graduate standing. Practical strategies to help secondary-level students engage in literacy practices across the disciplines, the reading process; student motivation; developing vocabulary, comprehension, study, and writing skills, evaluation and assessment. Emphasizes using the topics of the disciplines as the departure point for designing instructional strategies, and materials with a focus on literacy for social interaction, voice, and advocacy with literacy viewed as a social practice.