3 credit(s) This course is designed to prepare you to teach and develop literacy skills across the curriculum in grades 5 and 6. Completion of this course and ED 570 will qualify you with a grade 7-12 teaching certificate for additional certification in your content area in grades 5-6 in New York state. This course is based on both theoretical and practical aspects of the teaching experience. Students will review research, policy briefs and position statements on developing reading, writings, listening, speaking, viewing, and thinking as it applies to the middle adolescent level. The overall goals of this course will require you to connect, collaborate, and create to expand your concept of literacy; to understand the elements of effective literacy instructions in your content area for grades 5 and 6; and to acknowledge your role as a “reading teacher” no matter what your content area specialty is.