MGE 520 Methods of Teaching Content Area Literacy in the Middle Grades

This course focuses on the development of reading in the middle grades, particularly reading to learn from expository text materials, digital texts and other media, and on the development of study skills. Teaching methods that develop strategic reading and writing of informational texts and the assimilation and accommodation of new ideas will be explored. The ways that middle schools can best provide such reading and writing instruction across the curriculum, as articulated in the Common Core State Standards for Interdisciplinary Literacy, Grades 6-8, will be considered. Pre-requisite(s): MGE 501. Co-requisite(s): None. 2 semester hours