READ 3400 - Content Area Literacies

(3) Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admission to Educator Preparation Program
This course focuses on approaches for integrating language and literacy learning-reading, writing, listening, speaking, viewing, and visually/tactilely representing in grades 4-12 content area classrooms. 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. The use of content-related literature for young adults in a variety of genres and formats is modeled throughout the course.