Description
This course is designed to prepare middle level and secondary preservice teachers to emphasize literacy skills and strategies in the teaching of academic disciplines with a focus on disciplinary literacy instruction supported by the foundations of the science of reading. This course will emphasize assessing students' background knowledge and learning needs to plan instruction and identify appropriate resources, incorporating effective learning strategies to enhance students' literacy skills, identifying assessment strategies and tools to assess learning and plan instruction, and using texts and other supplemental resources to develop students' knowledge of content.