Teaching Literacies in the Content Areas

This course focuses on content-specific literacies in secondary teaching fields with an emphasis on reading, writing, and other 21st Century literacies in support of content-area learning. Topics include strategies for differentiating instruction across a variety of content areas, honoring socio-cultural dimensions of literacy, writing to learn, assessing literacies using various methods, and adapting instruction to meet student learning needs. Numerous content areas will be addressed.