Content Area Reading

Catalog description

This course is an intermediate course for ACP candidates and Post Baccalaureate students. Course content includes content area literacy, disciplinary literacy, discipline-appropriate thinking, and strategies for assisting diverse struggling readers with secondary texts. Course activities include an examination of content pedagogy standards for certification areas [19 TAC §228.30(a)]; English Language Proficiency Standards [19 TAC §228.30(d)(1)] and reading instruction, including instruction that improves students' content-area literacy [19 TAC §228.30(d)(2)].