What will you learn?
You may be wondering, “How will a structured literacy course help me enhance my instruction?” Every student uses some combination of reading, writing, speaking, and listening (i.e.. literacy) to interact with your content, with you, and with their peers. This course will apply structured literacy to content area teaching and learning to increase your awareness of challenges that may impact students’ progress in your content and give you simple strategies you can embed to support students.
This course will help you to answer the following question: How can I build student vocabulary that will transfer to other contexts while teaching my content?
Act 48 Hours Available: 1 Hour
Target Audience: Educators whose focus area is content, but who hold instructional certificates in early childhood, elementary-middle level, special education-PK-12, English as a second language, or reading specialists
Build Vocabulary & Content
This course will help you to answer the following question: How can I build student vocabulary that will transfer to other contexts while teaching my content?
Research and Strategies
What research and instructional strategies can inform my work to help students build vocabulary knowledge?
This course satisfies the PA Department of Education Chapter 49 requirement for professional development and applied practices in structured literacy.
If you would like more information about phonological and phonemic awareness, the alphabetic principle, decoding, encoding, fluency, or comprehension please find our other structured literacy courses in our FLEX catalog.
A Look Inside
- Your Assignment
- Why Should Vocabulary Be Taught in All Content Areas? (Overview)
- Which Words Should I Teach?
- How Should I Integrate Vocabulary into my Content Area Instruction?
- Context Clues
- Frayer Models
- Provide Opportunities for Active Use of Vocabulary
- Active Use of Vocabulary: Interactive Word Walls and Sketchnoting
- Tech Tools for Vocabulary Learning
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