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EDLT 324 - Literacy Across the Curriculum Grades 6-12


Description:
Theories of language and literacy instruction as applied to teaching across the curriculum in grades 6-12. Emphasis on reading and writing in content areas, as well as instructional strategies to support students’ literacy development. Focuses on ways that reading, writing, speaking, and listening are developed and used in learning discipline-specific curriculum.

Prerequisites:
Prerequisite: current WSP/FBI fingerprint clearance.

Credits: (3)

Learner Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course, the student/teacher candidate will be able to:

  • Identify and plan strategies to use reading, writing, speaking and listening as instructional tools
  • Examine and collect a wide range of comprehension strategies to meet the varied needs of the students in content area classrooms
  • Explore and define the content teacher’s role in using student literacy assessment data to inform instruction
  • Interpret assessment data and to plan and modify instruction to meet the needs of all students
  • Evaluate a wide range of strategies to comprehend, analyze, interpret, and evaluate a variety of literary and expository texts
  • Examine a wide range of research-based literacy instructional strategies, approaches and methods, including technology-based practices, for learners at differing stages of development and from differing cultural and linguistic backgrounds
  • Select and adapt a variety of print, nonprint, and classroom-based instructional materials for literacy, including those that are technology-based and are appropriate to the developmental needs of the student 
  • Identify and serve students who need intervention based on reading difficulties
  • Describe opportunities for integration of reading and writing across content areas.
  • Design instruction that purposefully considers context, standards and research
  • Develop teaching plans that reflect understanding of research-based best practice, demonstrate reflection and adjustment of instruction, and lead to identification of areas for professional growth
  • Review and reflect on disciplinary literacy from websites

Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
6/4/19

Anticipated Course Offering Terms and Locations:
Fall Locations: Ellensburg, Online Winter Locations: Ellensburg, Online



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