Curriculum Constructs and Assessment: Reading Methods for Secondary Settings

This course focuses on the most current research, theory, and methods of teaching reading at the secondary level. Various instructional and assessment techniques are modeled. A practical application project, based on work with a student in a 7th-12th-grade setting, is incorporated into the course requirements.

Topics and Objectives

Content Area Literacy

  • Define literacy.
  • Examine trends in literacy.
  • Generate a rationale for content area literacy.

Vocabulary

  • Analyze methods for teaching content area vocabulary.

Pre-Reading Strategies

  • Assess the importance of prior knowledge in the reading process.
  • Use pre-reading strategies such as anticipation guides, graphic organizers, Pre-P, and K-W-L charts.

National and State Standards

  • Examine national and state language arts standards.
  • Examine national and state content area standards.

Guided Reading Strategies

  • Use guided reading strategies such as Re-Quest, K-W-L charts, Question-Answer Relationships (QAR), note-taking, reciprocal teaching, and SQ3R.

Post-Reading and Study Strategies

  • Use post-reading and study strategies such as semantic mapping, graphic organizers, Venn diagrams, outlining, and summaries.

Assessment

  • Examine informal assessment procedures, such as the Content Reading Inventory and the Cloze procedure.
  • Examine formal assessment procedures, such as standardized reading tests.

Textbook Difficulty

  • Determine the readability of a textbook using the Fry Graph.

Considerations for Textbook Choice

  • Analyze the organization and content of a textbook to determine its classroom suitability.

Writing in the Content Areas

  • Examine the writing process.
  • Use holistic and analytic trait scoring.

Supplementary Resources in the Content Areas

  • Evaluate supplementary resources appropriate to chosen content, such as the Internet, trade books, periodicals, and software and multimedia.
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