ERL 450 Literacy in the Content Areas

This course examines strategies for integrating literacy into the content areas.  Topics include meta-cognitive strategies for informational and expository text, text features, the use of technology in adolescent literacy instruction, and vocabulary instructional strategies.  Upon completion of this course, candidates can effectively teach literacy skills in each of the content areas to adolescent learners using informational, expository, functional, and task-specific texts. 

 

Credits

4

Outcomes

1. This course will prepare students to:
2. Apply a variety of literacy strategies.
3. Design learning opportunities for students to self-evaluate, set goals for improvement, and monitor own progress.
4. Use text structure to increase comprehension.