EDUC 8134 - Reading in the Content Areas: The Effective Teaching of Informational Text

3 cr.

This course is designed to provide teaches with a deep understanding of the reading process as well as to provide them with a wide variety of reading-to-learn strategies that can be embedded in content area lessons. This course will assist teachers in helping students become more knowledgeable in the content areas by teaching them to become proficient readers of non-fiction. By integrating scientifically validated reading principles and practices within their discipline, teachers will be able to make their subjects more comprehensible by improving students’ understanding of the text’s content and, therefore, increase achievement in the content areas.