READ 3400 - Content Area Literacies

(4) Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admission to Educator Preparation
Co-requisite: EDUC 3600
This course focuses on approaches for integrating literacies-reading, writing, listening, speaking, viewing, and visually/tactilely representing into content area classrooms in grades 4-12. Candidates will explore the processes and practices of disciplinary literacies, describe and apply instructional strategies that support students’ language and literacy development in the content areas, and reflect on their own literacy beliefs and practices. Special attention will be given to the reading interests and needs of diverse adolescent learners and to literacy practices among digital natives. Literature for young adults in a variety of genres and formats will be integrated throughout the course. This course includes a field placement in middle grades classroom.