Adolescent literacy for middle grades
Help your students become more strategic readers. You’ll improve your own reading comprehension by teaching and modeling a variety of reading strategies. This course will introduce you to literacy resources and reading tools that will assist and enhance daily instruction.
Learn more
Related pages
- Promoting reading comprehension skills in the middle school classroom: Online course syllabus: Syllabus for the online course "Promoting Reading Comprehension Skills in the Middle School Classroom," which enables participants to help students develop concrete reading strategies that will improve their reading comprehension.
- Promoting reading comprehension skills in the middle school classroom: Teach your students the concrete reading strategies they'll need to improve their comprehension, whether they're reading for class, for work, or for pleasure. This course will help you prepare students to become active, purposeful readers who think about the text before, during, and after reading.
- Adolescent literacy: Social studies comprehension strategies: "Adolescent Literacy: Social Studies Strategies" equips teachers with a variety of strategies and resources to enhance literacy instruction in the social studies classroom in an ongoing and purposeful manner.
Related topics
- Learn more about literacy, middle school, online learning, and professional development.
Help
Please read our disclaimer for lesson plans.
Legal
The text of this page is copyright ©2012. See terms of use. Images and other media may be licensed separately; see captions for more information and read the fine print.
Course description
Help your students become more strategic readers. You’ll improve your own reading comprehension by teaching and modeling a variety of reading strategies. This course will introduce you to literacy resources and reading tools that will assist and enhance daily instruction.
Students seldom learn reading strategies in the context of language arts, social studies, science, and math. Helping students unlock the text to become more strategic readers requires specific and direct instruction.
Adolescent Literacy for Middle Grades is designed so middle school teachers can apply these strategies as they learn them. Participation, learning logs, discussion, and application in the teacher’s classrooms will determine the progress of the learner.
Course objectives
- Assess current knowledge about reading instruction in middle grades content areas.
- Discuss research-based recommendations to improve reading instruction for middle grade content areas.
- Acquire and utilize a diverse array of resources appropriate for both student reading levels and in specific content areas
- Implement various strategies to aid student comprehension before, during, and after reading.
Course information
- Audience
- This course is appropriate for teachers in grades 6-8/,/dd>
- Time commitment
- Approximately five hours per week
- Duration
- Six weeks
- Credits
- 3.0
Standards alignment
North Carolina Professional Teaching Standards (2009)
- Goal 3: Teachers know the content they teach.
- Objective 3.01: Teachers align their instruction with the North Carolina Standard Course of Study.
- Goal 4: Teachers facilitate learning for their students.
- Objective 4.03: Teachers use a variety of instructional methods.
- Goal 5: Teachers reflect on their practice.
- Objective 5.01: Teachers analyze student learning.
