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Curr Const & Assmt: Reading Methods For Secondary Settings –
rdg542
(3 credits)
This course focuses on the most current research, theory, and methods of teaching reading at the secondary level. Various instructional and assessment techniques are modeled. A practical application project, based on work with a student in a 7th -12th-grade setting, is incorporated into the course requirements.
This graduate-level course is 6
weeks.
To enroll, speak with an Enrollment Advisor.
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Content Area Literacy
- Define literacy.
- Examine trends in literacy.
- Generate a rationale for content area literacy.
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Vocabulary
- Analyze methods for teaching content area vocabulary.
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Pre-Reading Strategies
- Assess the importance of prior knowledge in the reading process.
- Use pre-reading strategies such as anticipation guides, graphic organizers, Pre-P, and K-W-L charts.
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National and State Standards
- Examine national and state language arts standards.
- Examine national and state content area standards.
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Guided Reading Strategies
- Use guided reading strategies such as Re-Quest, K-W-L charts, Question-Answer Relationships (QAR), note-taking, reciprocal teaching, and SQ3R.
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Post-Reading and Study Strategies
- Use post-reading and study strategies such as semantic mapping, graphic organizers, Venn diagrams, outlining, and summaries.
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Assessment
- Examine informal assessment procedures such as the Content Reading Inventory and the Cloze procedure.
- Examine formal assessment procedures such as standardized reading tests.
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Considerations for Textbook Choice
- Analyze the organization and content of a textbook to determine its classroom suitability.
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Textbook Difficulty
- Determine the readability of a textbook using the Fry Graph.
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Writing in the Content Areas
- Examine the writing process.
- Use holistic and analytic trait scoring.
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Supplementary Resources in the Content Areas
- Evaluate supplementary resources appropriate to chosen content, such as the Internet, trade books, periodicals, and software and multimedia.
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- While widely available, not all programs are available in all locations or in both online and on-campus formats. Please check with a University Enrollment Advisor.
- Transferability of credit is at the discretion of the receiving institution. It is the student’s responsibility to confirm whether or not credits earned at University of Phoenix will be accepted by another institution of the student’s choice.
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