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Adolescent Literacy: Social Studies 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.
Reading is an essential activity for people in every walk of life, and for students of every subject in school. The ability to read and comprehend information is crucial to understanding society around us, as well as making decisions and defending one’s views and opinions.
Social studies teachers, like all educators, bear a responsibility to prepare students to become engaged and informed citizens. That preparation must include direct instruction in how to develop the reading skills that will help them achieve higher in social studies--and in life.
Course Goal
The goal of this course is to equip teachers with a variety of strategies and resources to enhance literacy instruction in the social studies classroom in an ongoing and purposeful manner.
Prerequisites
Participants must be high school social studies 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: Social Studies Comprehension Strategies:
- Assess current knowledge and attitudes about adolescent literacy instruction
- Become familiar with research-based recommendations to improve reading instruction in Social Studies classes
- Understand and implement an array of resources appropriate for both student reading levels and the specific social studies course
- Implement a variety of strategies to aid student comprehension
- Help striving readers by using specific strategies that support learning
Time commitment
Approximately 5-6 hours per week
Current offerings
There are no scheduled offerings of this course.
