EDRD 5861 - Book Study: Reading and Writing to Make an Impact

Delivery Options Distance Learning

Course Description

In a time of next-generation standards that emphasize higher-order strategies, text complexity, and the reading of nonfiction, this course continues to help teachers meet new challenges, including those of increasing cultural diversity. The course delineates what highly motivated adolescent readers and writers actually do when they read and write, and how to help struggling readers and writers take on those same stances and strategies. The course provides ready-to-use lessons that include a full range of writing, including poetry, narrative, petitions, proposals, emails, self-reflections, long-term projects, and critical analyses. It also includes reading tips for using visual techniques, drama and action strategies, think-aloud protocols, and symbolic story representation/reading manipulatives.

Learner Outcomes

By the end of the course participants will be able to:

Plan a lesson to teach your students Strategies for Compelling Openings
Evaluate how to increase writing engagement with students
Utilize a data-driven theory of literature and literary reading as engagement
Assist students in the use of higher-order strategies of reading and writing
Create and utilize classroom interventions to help all students, especially reluctant ones, to become successful readers and writers

Notes

A link to the Armchair Ed course assignments and exams will be included in the registration confirmation and receipt email that will be automatically sent to students immediately upon completion of the registration process. Any required textbooks must be purchased separately.

The link can also be accessed after enrollment by logging into the Student Portal and clicking the link listed under View Online Resources.

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EDRD 5861 - 170

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Book Study: Reading and Writing to Make an Impact

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Tuition credit (5 units)

$425.00

ArmchairEd $20 Discount

5 Quarter Credits

Reading List / Textbook

Must be Purchased Separately:

Murphy, S., & Smith, M. A. (2020). Writing to make an impact: Expanding the vision of writing in the secondary classroom. Teachers College Press ; National Writing Project.
Wilhelm, J. D. (2016). You gotta be the book: Teaching engaged and reflective reading with adolescents. Teachers College Press.

Section Notes

This course is offered in collaboration with ArmchairEd.

Course is self-paced. Completion time: up to one year from date of enrollment.

Refund Policy: Withdrawals submitted online through SPU within 7 days of enrollment will receive a 95% refund. Withdrawals received after that point will not receive a refund and no withdrawals will be accepted after the completion deadline for the course. Instructions on how to withdraw are located on our website under Students/Withdrawal and Refund Policies.