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RDNG/510

Content Area Reading and Writing for Adolescents

Course level: Continuing Teacher Education

Continuing Education for Teachers

Online

Format

$525

Estimated Tuition

3 credits

Total credits

4 weeks

Course length

Take this course on its own, or as part of a degree or certificate program.

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In this course, participants explore the teaching of reading and writing in grades 6-12 content area classrooms. Participants learn instructional strategies, comprehension strategies, vocabulary strategies, and techniques for using reading and writing to learn across content area lines. Methods for differentiating instruction as well as assessing reading and writing are examined.

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.

Earn these career-relevant skills in weeks, not years.

  • Define the various terms associated with literacy types: adolescent literacy, critical literacy, information literacy, media literacy, multicultural literacy, multiple literacies, new literacies, and content literacies.
  • Analyze adolescent literacy development.
  • Describe learning with new literacies, multiliteracies, and texts.
  • Compare teaching and learning literacy in an age of multiple literacies with teaching for college and career readiness.
  • Determine what is meant by writing to learn, writing to read, and reading to write in the content area classroom.
  • Analyze how students use writing to create and solve problems.
  • Explain the similarities and differences between writing to read and reading to write.
  • Compare formal and informal writing in the content area classroom.

  • Determine instructional strategies and techniques to enhance adolescents’ comprehension.
  • Describe vocabulary activities to foster comprehension of content area text.
  • Analyze how comprehension strategies both guide and extend critical thinking skills.
  • Explain the need for academic vocabulary use across content area lines.

  • Explain the role of technology in writing.
  • Determine how the use of technology enriches the teaching of writing.
  • Compare instructional writing strategies to determine their effectiveness in the content area classroom.
  • Explain how writing strategies enhance content area instruction.

  • Create reading and writing activities that meet the needs of adolescents with varied abilities and learning preferences.
  • Select pre-reading, guided reading, and post-reading activities that heighten comprehension and retention for diverse learners.
  • Determine the best formal and informal assessments needed for reading and writing instruction across content area lines.
  • Explain the use of digital assessments such as portfolios, rubrics, and self-assessments.

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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. 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.