@SECD 471 - Teaching Reading and Literature: Grades 5-12

4 Credit(s)

Third course in the sequence in teaching literacy in English Language Arts classrooms, grades 5-12. This course will extend study of literacy for all learners, including students acquiring the English Language Arts as a second language and students with special learning needs, in middle childhood and adolescence English Language Arts classrooms. The course will provide focused studies on the teaching of literature and reading, grades 5-12. Infused throughout this focused study at both the middle childhood and adolescence levels will be teaching strategies for integrating reading, writing, speaking and listening. Students will also work in the computer lab using and locating resources on teaching reading and literature, constructing reading databases and examine instructional uses of power point and electronic communication. Fall.

Prerequisite(s): @SECD 361.
Corequisite(s): SECD 491.