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RDNG/507

Continuing Education for Teachers

CONTENT AREA READING AND WRITING FOR ELEMENTARY

Online

Format

$525

Estimated Tuition

3 credits

Total credits

4 weeks

Course length

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Please Note: Attendance and participation are mandatory in all University courses, and specific requirements may differ by course. If attendance requirements are not met, a student may be removed from the course. Please review the Course Attendance Policy in the Catalog for more information.

University of Phoenix reserves the right to modify courses. While widely available, not all programs are available to residents of all states. Please check with a University Enrollment Representative.

Course level: Continuing Teacher Education

This course focuses on methods and materials for teaching diverse elementary children to read and write well in various content areas. Participants examine current critical issues affecting content area reading and writing, including state and national assessments. Effective reading and writing strategies, vocabulary development, and technology tools, media, and print materials used to enhance children's reading and writing in the content areas are also explored.

This course is not available for enrollment to residents of Alabama, Arkansas, and Kentucky.

Prerequisites

None

Required materials

The materials required for this course are covered in your resource fees.

Please Note: Attendance and participation are mandatory in all University courses, and specific requirements may differ by course. If attendance requirements are not met, a student may be removed from the course. Please review the Course Attendance Policy in the Catalog for more information.

University of Phoenix reserves the right to modify courses. While widely available, not all programs are available to residents of all states. Please check with a University Enrollment Representative.

What you'll learn

Course skills and outcomes

  • Analyze critical issues regarding content area reading and writing instruction and learning.
  • Identify characteristics of effective literacy teachers.
  • Analyze the role that content area reading and writing plays in a 21st century world.
  • Examine content area literacy standards.

  • Evaluate content area trade books, texts, and non-text materials for readability level, appropriateness, interest, and accessibility.
  • Identify approaches to content area reading and writing assessment that align with state standards and current legislation.
  • Evaluate criteria for determining the effectiveness of reading and writing methods for student engagement, interest, and understanding in content area classrooms.
  • Propose strategies for activating, reinforcing, and extending students’ knowledge in content area vocabulary.
  • Create effective and engaging writing assignments as a response to content area reading and as a way to showcase content area learning.
  • Evaluate appropriate measures to assess student writing and to document student development in content area writing tasks.
  • Examine ways to integrate reading and writing in the content areas.
  • Identify effective strategies that target writing to learn (WTL) and writing in disciplines (WID) in content area classrooms.

  • Identify key components of explicit and functional strategy instruction and the role they both play in content area instruction.
  • Evaluate strategies for activating and building on children’s prior knowledge and interest related to content areas.
  • Identify approaches to lesson and unit planning for content area classrooms.
  • Analyze best practices for teaching students how to comprehend and think critically about content area texts.
  • Evaluate strategies that teach students study skills for content area texts.

  • Examine the role that children’s literature plays in content area instruction.
  • Evaluate ways to integrate new literacies and multi-literacies into content area instruction.
  • Identify critical issues related to students’ use of the Internet for research, reading, and writing.
  • Identify appropriate websites, software, and effective media tools for use by teachers and by elementary students in the content areas.
  • Analyze children’s literature, media, and technology tools for inclusion of multicultural and multi-language content.

Why UOPX

Why take courses at University of Phoenix

Accreditation that matters

We’ve been accredited by the Higher Learning Commission (hlcommission.org) for more than 40 years.

Real-world instructors

Learn from instructors who bring an average of 25 years of working experience to the classroom.

Affordable and potentially reimbursable

Our tuition and fees are competitive and fixed. Also, check to see if your employer will cover you for this course.

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How to request your transcripts

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. If you have a question contact us at (866) 354-1800.

The University of Phoenix reserves the right to modify courses. Although our continuing teacher education courses are accepted by some state agencies in the United States toward teacher certifications and endorsements, this may not be the case in all states or foreign jurisdictions. If you plan to use courses for certification or endorsement, please check with your own state agency and your school district for applicability. Continuing teacher education courses are not eligible to apply to degree programs at University of Phoenix. These courses are not eligible for federal financial aid. 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. While widely available, not all programs are available to residents of all states. Please check with a University Enrollment Representative. If you have a question contact us at (866) 354-1800.