3 credit(s) This course familiarizes MAT students with the necessity for and techniques of increasing student literacy (skills, attitudes, and dispositions) in each content area. Participants read background information, explore their own literacy skills, and practice applying reading and writing activities in lesson plans. Students will recognize the importance of literacy in all content areas; expand their definitions of literacy, exploring the skills and dispositions which make it possible for students to read and write for meaning for a wide variety of academic and personal purposes; explore and develop their own skills as proficient readers and writers in general and in their chosen content areas; become aware of issues of literacy through readings and discussions; become aware of how the kinds of reading and writing assigned to students shape their thinking; develop, analyze, and integrate literacy skills in classroom lessons; integrate reading and writing into classroom lessons in a variety of ways to stimulate and shape thinking; address NYS standards.