ENGL 6656 Reading Improvement at the Secondary Level

A survey of materials, methods, developmental and remediation programs, and library research at the secondary level.

Credits

3

Student Learning Outcomes

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

1. We will become familiar with reader response criticism as it applies to high school and middle school readers so that you can guide your students to engage critically with texts.
2. We will explore models of young adult reading so that you will be able to facilitate the process of reading and criticism with your students.
3. We will discuss ways of helping students engage in reading across their middle and high school curriculum.
4. We will read, review, and plan lessons around two young adult novels so that we have a rudimentary understanding of what our students are reading and what they like, and how we might use YA literature to hook life-long readers.
5. We will develop ways of evaluating students’ reading and critical skills and balancing non-pejorative evaluation with grading.
6. We will discuss the importance of introducing multicultural readings to middle grade and high school readers.