EDUC 415 Content Reading: Reading to Learn

This course will focus on the basics of content area reading, such as test-taking strategies, questioning skills, study skills, textbook reading strategies, expository text structures, and content vocabulary development. In addition, setting purposes for reading and writing, accommodating for individual differences in content area reading and writing, integrating children's and adolescent literature across the curriculum, using library and technology resources for researching, writing research reports, and writing across the curriculum will be covered. This course is part of the methods field experience (junior level).

Credits

3

Prerequisite

Prerequisites for EC, MC, and IS majors: EDUC 202, EDUC 219, EDUC 265, EDUC 325, and SPED 261; Prerequisites for AYA and MA majors: EDUC 202, EDUC 265, and SPED 261