EDG-CR Resource Lit. & Comp II

Offering high-interest topics to motivate students who are reading two to three levels below grade, this course woks in conjunction with Literacy and Comprehension I to use a thematic and contemporary approach to expose student to effective instructional pricniples using diverse content area and real-world text. Presented as two one-semester reading-intervention courses, both offer an engaging, technology-based interface that inspires and challenges high school and middle school students to gain knowledge a d proficiency int he following comprehension strategies: summarizing, questioning, previewing and predicting, recognizing text structure, visualizing, making inferences, and monitoring understanding with metacognition. Aimed at improving fluency and vocabulary, self-evaluation strategies built into the courses inspire students to take control of their learning.