Undergraduate Catalog

EDU 641 Literacy Teaching and Learning: Secondary Grades

In this course, candidates examine the purposeful social and cognitive processes of adolescent literacy, address instructional issues related to teaching and learning reading and writing in the middle and secondary grades (6-12), practice effective ways to deliver literacy skills for adolescents across a range of domains, with consideration given to motivation, comprehension, critical thinking, and assessment. This course provides the basis in adolescent literacy teaching and learning for teacher candidates who are about to embark upon the student teaching practicum experience in middle and secondary school settings, and requires related field-work.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

EDU 600; EDU 311 or EDU 601; and admission to the education program, or permission of the program director.

Distribution

Bachelors, Graduate, Undergraduate