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Reading in the Content Areas

Course Description
In this course, participants 1) learn methods to improve comprehension and vocabulary development 2) learn strategies to improve content area reading, and 3) adapt literacy assessment techniques to content area reading. Core questions addressed in the course include:

How is content area literacy and literacy in the reading classroom alike and different?
How can teachers help students read content area texts effectively?
How can teachers help students develop research and writing skills critical in the content areas?
What are effective assessment techniques for content area literacy?
How can technology be used both to develop literacy and learn content?

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). (2002). Best practices in teaching: Reading in the content areas [Videotape]. Glenview, IL: Pearson Education.

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Textbooks
Brozo, W. G., & Simpson, M. L. (2003). Readers, teachers, learners: Expanding literacy across the content areas (4th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Merrill Prentice Hall.

Sejnost, R., & Thiese, S. (2001). Reading and writing across content areas.
Arlington Heights, IL: SkyLight Professional Development.

Additional Reading Courses Available
Children's Literature in the Elementary Classroom
Language, Literacy and Technology
Reading Assessment and Instructional Interventions
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.

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