RED 4335 - Teaching Reading in the Content Areas-BS

3 class hours 3 Credit(s)
Prerequisite(s): Admission into the Bachelor of Science in program in Education or special permission from the Associate Dean of Baccalaureate programs
This course is designed to promote effective teaching of literacy skills across the curriculum. The major emphasis of this course is placed on current theories, methods and materials used in content area literacy instruction. Lecture, discussion, simulated teachin,g and field work constitute different course activities. Also, this course emphasizes that reading is a process of student engagements in both fluent decoding of words and construction of meaning. This course covers knowledge of language structure and function and cognition for each of the five major components of the reading process.