MS_ED 422		Teaching Reading in the Content Area This course is designed to help middle school and high school English teachers develop an understanding of specific strategies that readers must use to achieve deep comprehension of content material.  Students will explore cognitive foundations of reading comprehension and their influence on methods of instruction and assessment, as well as the interrelationships among reading processes and language learning. Theory and practice relationships will be explored as students experience and learn about: text structure, use of background knowledge, comprehension connections, inferencing, strategies for active engagement, socio-cultural influences on reading, reading/writing relationships, text sets, and assessment of content reading.
MS_ED 424		Foundations of Reading and Language Acquisition: Secondary Cognitive foundations of reading comprehension and their influence on methods of instruction and assessment; the interrelationships among reading processes and language learning. Required for students seeking certification in English.
Teach Ed 324		Foundations of Reading/Language Cognitive foundations of reading comprehension processes and their influences on methods of instruction and assessment.  Interrelationships among reading processes and language learning and their implications for instruction and assessment.