ENGL 6640 Reading and Writing in the Content Areas

Strategies, cultural issues, reflective practice, motivation, scaffolding, standards, and assessment advice and theory to help content area teachers use reading and writing as learning tools.

Credits

3

Student Learning Outcomes

Upon the completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate the following outcome-based learning skills:

1. Integrate strategies that foster reading and writing for learning.
2. Design effective quick and deep writing prompts.
3. Utilize state and national standards in developing reading and writing assignments.
4. Reflect on our own notions of the purposes of reading and writing in the secondary classroom.
5. Develop strategies for scaffolding students’ reading and writing skills.
6. Investigate methods of assessing students’ reading and writing.