EDU 260A - Reading and Writing Strategies in Secondary Education

3 Credit(s)

Students learn strategies for assisting secondary students with reading and writing in the academic disciplines. Topics include instruction and assessment of literacy skills; the use of textbooks, trade books, and electronic texts; comprehension strategies, vocabulary development, the writing process, study skills, and first and second language and literacy processes. Three lecture hours per week. Required of Education majors with Middle School concentration and Secondary Education minors. Prerequisite: EDU 110 or EDU 252A.