EDRD 641 Teaching Literacy in the Content Areas

Designed for prospective and in-service elementary, middle, and secondary school teachers, this course will provide opportunities for an in-depth study of teaching literacy in various subject matter areas and present skills and strategies that facilitate literacy learning with content textbooks, content-area authentic texts, and other media. Strategies for teaching scaffolded instruction of language and literacies to support standards and curricular objectives in the content areas will be presented. Candidates will use evidence-based, student-centered, developmentally appropriate interactive approaches to promote literacy and content area learning. 3 credits.