Content Area Literacy

Course Description

This course is designed to provide literacy instruction theory and skills for teaching content area subjects in grades 4 through 12. The course’s strategy-based approach includes developing vocabulary, evaluating reading materials, constructing meaning in texts, developing comprehension skills, and learning techniques for the adaptation and development of study materials to address the diverse reading levels of students in middle level and secondary schools.

Code

ED 380

Credits

3

Subject

Education

Programs That Include This Course

• Bachelor's Biology in Conjunction with the Secondary Education Major or Minor
• Bachelor's Double Major Leading to Certification Elementary and Early Childhood Education PK-4 and Special Education (PK-12)
• Bachelor's Earth and Environmental Science Major, B.A.
• Bachelor's English, Secondary Education Certification (with Secondary Education Major or Minor), B.A.
• Bachelor's History, Conjunction with the Secondary Education Major or Minor, B.A.
• Bachelor's Mathematics Major, B.A.
• Bachelor's Mathematics Major, B.S.
• Bachelor's Middle Level Education Major Leading to Certification with a Concentration in English, Language Arts, and Reading
• Bachelor's Middle Level Education Major leading to Certification with a Concentration in Mathematics
• Bachelor's Middle Level Education Major leading to Certification with a Concentration in Mathematics and Science
• Bachelor's Middle Level Education Major Leading to Certification with a Concentration in Science
• Bachelor's Middle Level Education Major Leading to Certification with a Concentration in Social Studies
• Bachelor's Physics Major, B.A.
• Bachelor's PK-12 Special Education Major
• Bachelor's Political Science Major, B.A.
• Bachelor's Secondary Education Programs of Study for the Major and Minor Leading to Secondary Certification
• Bachelor's Spanish Major, B.A.