EDLT 324 - Literacy Across the Curriculum Grades 6-12

• 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