READ 8132 - Content Area Reading and Writing: Fostering Literacy in Middle School and High School

3 cr.

This course meets the requirement that all teachers at the middle and secondary levels be able to use and teach the skills of reading and writing in their disciplines. This course includes an investigation of the reading and writing processes within content disciplines: an examination of the relationships among reading, writing, critical thinking, and learning; discussion of current evaluative methods, including portfolio; an analysis of reading and writing strategies and procedures for developing student capacity for using reading and writing to think critically and to learn and understand content. Credit cannot be given for both READ 8132 and EDUC 7014. This is part of the professional licensure track, middle school.