EDUC 650: Content Reading and Study Strategies

Course Description: This course will improve strategic teaching of all teachers, in particular grades 4-12. Teachers will learn to develop effective reading behaviors, literacy skills, and study strategies that will enable all students to tackle increasingly complex materials. Innovative ideas for working with diverse classrooms and students who exhibit a variety of learning needs will be addressed. Strategies that improve student vocabulary, organizational skills, and comprehension and thinking skills will be presented and discussed. Developing an appreciation that children need to know how to make connections and ask questions, how to visualize and infer, how to extract important ideas and synthesize information if they are to become successful, fluent readers will improve student achievement. This course will include reading experiences to help teachers become more aware of where they are themselves as readers.

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