ED 367 Reading in the Content Areas II: Middle School

Focuses on the implementation of a coherent literacy program for young adolescents that supports content area learning. Teacher candidates use a variety of strategies to promote student independence in content area reading. Candidates incorporate methods in the content areas to address the diverse backgrounds of their students, including culture, language (dialect and ESOL), disabilities, and giftedness. Candidates teach lessons in the content areas focused on text-based concept development. Candidates observe, participate and teach in school classrooms one day per week (ED 302F). Restricted: Year 3 Middle School Education majors

Credits

3 credits

Prerequisite

A grade of C or better ED 266

Offered

Fall