EDUC 0625 - Advanced Content Area Literacy

Fall, Spring & Demand 3 Credit Hours
This course is designed to provide an overview of the key factors influencing student literacy including motivation and metacognitive awareness. Students will practice strategies for integrating reading, writing, speaking and listening into all content area classrooms. Students will utilize scaffolding tools to make content area reading more manageable and meaningful including before, during, and after reading-reading strategies; vocabulary development; content-specific reading approaches; and text-based analysis. Students will also be able to identify and describe specific challenges related to reading in each content area and identify and describe specific challenges related to reading in each content area and identify appropriate alternate reading options and instructional interventions for students with reading deficits Prerequisites: Admission to MSSU Masters of Curriculum and Instruction Program and/or advisor approval.