TED 521 - Content Literacy for All Learners

Units: 4
Theory, research, and instructional methodology to teach content-based reading and writing skills to a full range of secondary-school students, including struggling readers, students with special needs, English learners and speakers of non-standard English, and advanced learners.

Prerequisites: Admission to Single Subject Credential Program.
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid or Online-Asynchronous.
Grading: A-F grading only.
Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

the state-adopted reading/language arts student content standards framework.
Understand the use of materials, methods and strategies for English language development that are responsive to students’ assessed levels of English proficiency, and that lead to the rapid acquisition of listening, speaking, reading and writing skills in English comparable to those of their grade level peers.
Understand linguistic development, first and second language acquisition and how first language literacy connects to second language development.
Understand systematic instructional strategies designed to make grade-appropriate or advanced curriculum content comprehensible to English learners.
Implement materials, methods and strategies for English language development that are responsive to students’ assessed levels of English proficiency, and that lead to the rapid acquisition of listening, speaking, reading and writing skills in English comparable to those of their grade level peers.
Implement systematic instructional strategies designed to make grade-appropriate or advanced curriculum content comprehensible to English learners. Interpret assessments of English learners, and the purposes, content and uses of California’s English Language Development Standards, and English Language Development Test.