[ARCHIVED CATALOG] 2013-2014 Undergraduate Academic Catalog 
    
    Nov 22, 2024  
[ARCHIVED CATALOG] 2013-2014 Undergraduate Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

EDU 336 - Teaching Reading in the Secondary Content Areas

3 credits
Prerequisite(s): EDU 226  or EDU 328  (or concurrently)
Corequisite(s): EDU 344 - Practicum I in Middle/Secondary Schools , EDU 345 - Seminar: Becoming a Professional , and EDU 350 - Middle and Secondary School Curriculum and Philosophy 
Students will examine current research and instructional approaches that focus on improving adolescent literacy skills. The course is designed to address literacy issues in content area classrooms at the secondary school level. Students will learn about the reading process, identify reading demands in content areas, develop instructional activities to improve reading, and use reading/writing/thinking activities in daily instruction. Field experience is required.