AREDU 700 - Secondary Literacy

Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3

This course introduces content area literacy theories and practices, grounded in the concept that every secondary teacher is a teacher of literacy. Candidate teachers will study what literacy is and how literacy practices are specialized for specific environments, content areas, and students, including multilingual learners. The course will demonstrate how literacy instruction is essential for students to develop core content proficiency through exploring the transition from an elementary “learning to read” focus to the “reading to learn” focus of middle school and high school; the interconnectedness of reading, writing, and thinking and the need to explicitly provide modeling for each to support student success; and diverse resources, strategies, and approaches to differentiation to support all students.

Offered Fall