READ 201 - Teaching Content Area Literacies in Elementary and Early Childhood Classrooms

(3 credits)
Prerequisite: ENGL 102
This course focuses on the relationship between literacy instruction and the content areas. The major areas of study include reading and writing in the content areas, text structure, thinking and questioning, a broad spectrum of reading strategies to understand text, the instruction of domain-specific vocabulary, and the necessary tools to effectively teach elementary and early childhood research writing. Integral to this course are the Common Core State Standards outcomes for content area literacy. (CWRT)