Adolescent Literacy. ((3 Credits))

Catalog description

Prerequisite(s): Admission to Graduate Status, Admission to the School of Education Masters Degree Program, Or permission of the Dean Provides practicing secondary teachers with concepts, models, and strategies to support adolescent literacy instruction. Familiarizes teachers with practical constructs for understanding adolescent literacy, its importance, how it can be fostered and employed for student learning, how the challenges of adolescent literacy differ from the challenges of early reading instruction, and how systematic interventions can help remediate chronic failure in literacy and learning. Teaches effective literacy improvement practices that can be realistically implemented in the context of secondary teachers' many demands.