ENGL 4440 Reading and Writing in the Content Areas

Strategies, cultural issues, reflective practice, motivation, scaffolding, standards, and assessment at the secondary level.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

2000-level ENGL course with a grade "C" or better

Typically Offered

Demorest Campus: fall day

Student Learning Outcomes

Upon the completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate the following outcome-based learning skills:

1. Integrate strategies that foster reading and writing for learning.
2. Design effective quick and deep writing prompts.
3. Utilize state and national standards in developing reading and writing assignments.
4. Reflect on our own notions of the purposes of reading and writing in the secondary classroom.
5. Develop strategies for scaffolding students’ reading and writing skills.
6. Investigate methods of assessing students’ reading and writing.