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Language, Literacy and Technology

Course Description
This course focuses on the development of literacy through the infusion of technology, thinking and process skills across the curriculum. Participants learn to develop literacy in their students to support learning as well as personal and academic achievement. Core questions addressed in the course include:

How can teachers develop lessons that promote literacy?
What should teachers consider when developing a classroom environment that supports literacy?
How can teachers from various content areas create sensory-rich environments that will engage students in language arts and technology skills?
How can teachers help students build knowledge and construct meaning when the material is new, complex, or highly abstract?
How can teachers measure literacy growth over a period of time?

Course Features and Materials
This course features video with classroom teaching and expert commentary, graduate-level texts, participant forums to promote in-depth discussion, and an application-based approach to assignments to ensure transfer of learning.

Video Series
SkyLight Training and Publishing (Producer). (2000). Best practices in teaching: Literacy
[Videotape]. Glenview, IL: Pearson Education.

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Textbooks
Burniske, R. W. (2000). Literacy in the cyberage: Composing ourselves online.
Arlington Heights, IL: SkyLight Training and Publishing.

Ruddell, R. B. (2002). Teaching children to read and write: Becoming an effective literacy teacher
(3rd ed.). Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

Additional Reading Courses Available
Children's Literature in the Elementary Classroom
Reading Assessment and Instructional Interventions
Reading in the Content Areas
Teaching English and Language Arts to Second Language Learners
The Foundations of Reading
The Writing Process

Additional Courses Available
Augment your program by purchasing the content of a LessonLab SkyLight course on Assessment, Classroom Management, Inclusion, Math, Reading, Science, Teaching Strategies, or Technology.

For a course demonstration or for further information on content licensing from LessonLab SkyLight, call 800.348.4474, ext. 3192 or download a copy of our content licensing brochure.