| Course ID: | LLED 6060E. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | Content Area Literacies |
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. |
| Oasis Title: | Content Area Literacies |
| Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in LLED 6060 |
| Nontraditional Format: | This course will be taught 95% or more online. |
Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. |
| 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. |
| 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 |