EDU 487 - Literacy in Content Area

This course is designed to provide educators with methods of enhancing students’ ability to access disciplinary specific reading material and to communicate successfully about the discipline through writing. Reading and writing frameworks that support students at-risk, with disabilities, and ELL students will be examined. Additionally, this course will provide targeted tactics of instruction such as metacognition, use of technology, vocabulary building, visualization and critical thinking. This course requires 45 hours of field experience.

Prerequisite(s): EDU 483 and EDU 485