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Adolescent Literacy: English Language Arts Comprehension Strategies
This course is part of LEARN NC's catalog of online courses for teachers. Please see the current offerings at the bottom of this page for information about when it may next be taught.
If you want to prepare students to become life-long readers and writers, your classroom must include direct instruction in developing reading skills. Reading is an essential activity for people in every walk of life. The ability to read and comprehend information is crucial in thinking critically, making decisions, and defending one’s views and opinions.
Course Goal
This course will equip teachers with a variety of strategies and resources to enhance literacy instruction in the classroom in an ongoing and purposeful manner.
Prerequisites
Participants must be high school English Language Arts teachers.
Course objectives
Although a variety of activities and readings have been designed to help participants become familiar and comfortable with strategies to promote adolescent literacy, there are five objectives participants should achieve in Adolescent Literacy: English Language Arts Comprehension Strategies.
- Assess current knowledge and attitudes about adolescent literacy instruction
- Become familiar with research-based recommendations to improve reading instruction in English classes
- Understand and implement an array of resources appropriate for both student reading levels and the specific English Language Arts course
- Implement a variety of strategies to aid student comprehension
- Help striving readers by using specific strategies that support learning
Current offerings
There are no scheduled offerings of this course.
