Course Description

Theory and instructional strategies for enhancing reading, writing, speaking, and listening across various subjects in the school curriculum for grades K-12. This is a reading endorsement course for elementary, middle, and high school teachers.

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Athena Title

Content Area Literacies

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Equivalent Courses

Not open to students with credit in LLED 6060E

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Semester Course Offered

Offered every year.

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Grading System

A - F (Traditional)

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Course Objectives

1. Encapsulate what literacy/ies are potentially involved in students’ personal and academic worlds and how those two worlds can be intertwined in the content area classrooms 2. Discuss theories, research, and strategies used when teaching content area materials and concepts 3. Apply those theories, research, and strategies to issues that might occur in the classroom

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Topical Outline

1. Conceptualizations of literacy and content-area literacy 2. Disciplinary knowledge associated with the different subject areas 3. Multiliteracies/New Literacies 4. Text Structures 5. Role of Motivation/Engagement 6. Instructional strategies for literacy development, comprehension, and application

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