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CourseCompass Access Code Card for Course Connect: Content Area Reading
CourseCompass Access Code Card for Course Connect Content Area Reading Author:Pearson Education This online Content Area Reading course developed by Pearson Teacher Education and Development offers instructors a rich online course built around assignments and activities, classroom videos, and readings. Weekly assignments are focused on essential course concepts and provide well-structured and effective learning activities. Once st... more »udents complete these assignments they are given opportunities to discuss and reflect upon what they have learned. Students are then led tomeaningful weekly activities that require them to apply what they have learned. Available for most course management systems, this course is customizable and can easily accommodate and adapt to instructors’ own resources and materials. Basic Course ComponentsCourse Documents
Online Student Manual
Course Syllabus
Course Reading Assignments from Leading Texts
Rubrics
Online Resources
Bloom’s Taxonomy
Lesson Plan Template
Microsoft Tutorials
Weekly Assignments
Learning Objectives
Learning Log
Reading Assignments
Viewing Activities
Theory Into Practice Exercises
Discussion Board Questions
Synthesize/Apply/Reflect Exercises
Assignment Guidelines
Additional Resources
Content Area Reading Course Topics
Literacy in the Content Areas
Motivation
Striving Readers
Vocabulary
Comprehension
Writing to Learn
Literacy Through Technology
Assessing Literacy Progress
Books Aligned to the Course
Alvermann, D.E., Phelps, S.F., & Gillis, V.R. (2010) Content Area Reading and Literacy: Succeeding in Today's Diverse Classroom (with MyEducationLab). (6th ed.) Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon.
ISBN-10: 013610102X
Brozo, W. G. & Simpson, M.L. (2007) Content Literacy for Today's Adolescents: Honoring Diversity and Building Competence. (5th ed.) Columbus, OH: Merrill.
ISBN-10: 0132286718
Conley, M.W. (2008) Content Area Literacy: Learners in Context. Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon.
ISBN-10: 0205455980
McKenna, M . & Robinson, R.D. (2009) Teaching Through Text: Reading and Writing in the Content Areas. Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon.
ISBN-10: 0132074729
McLaughlin, M. (2010) Content Area Reading: Teaching and Learning in an Age of Multiple Literacies (with MyEducationLab). Boston, MA:Allyn & Bacon.
ISBN-10: 0136101313
Unrau, N. (2008).Content Area Reading and Writing: Fostering Literacies in Middle and High School Cultures. (2nd ed.) Columbus, OH: Merrill.
ISBN-10: 0132298546
Vacca. R.T & Vacca, J.L. (2008)Content Area Reading: Literacy and Learning Across the Curriculum. (9th ed.) Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon.