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Content Area Reading Comprehension (K–8)
In session (began October 28)
Improve your students’ reading comprehension in content area subjects. In this course, you will learn strategies for improving your students’ reading comprehension in the content areas. Throughout the course, you will have the opportunity to practice many of these reading comprehension strategies as you learn about them. You will also learn to use a research-based instructional framework that will improve your students’ comprehension of content-area materials.
Themes
Three themes are threaded throughout this course: the roles of critical thinking skills, engagement, and strategy instruction in improving your students’ comprehension of content area materials. These three themes are also the criteria that will be used to evaluate your unit plan. The assignments in the course are designed to help you explore these themes.
Prerequisites
None
Course objectives
The assignments in the course are designed to help you develop a repertoire of reading comprehension strategies that you can use with your students. Throughout this course, you will learn about reading comprehension strategies in a variety of ways, including:
- Discussion board postings
- Online readings
- Practice with reading comprehension strategies
Unit plan assignment: As the culminating activity for this course, you will develop a content-area unit plan and identify related strategy lesson plans that you can use to improve your students’ reading comprehension. The unit plan assignment will require you to:
- Identify a unit plan specific to your content area and grade level from the LEARN NC lesson plan collection
- Develop an annotated bibliography of 5 primary and secondary resources that you can use as resources for your unit.
- Identify 12 reading and writing strategy lessons that you can use to improve your students’ comprehension of the unit and adapt to your unit plan, using instructional resources available through LEARN NC and other web-based resources.
- Post reflections about what you have learned to the course discussion board.
Materials required
None
