
Learning Objectives:
- Identify the importance of literacy and among adolescents and the necessity of improving literacy skills in content-based classrooms.
- Describe the role of decoding as a reading skill for adolescents, and ways of addressing decoding within content-based classroom instruction.
- Describe the role of morphology as a reading skill for adolescents, and ways of addressing mophology within content-based classroom instruction.
- Describe the role of fluency as a reading skill for adolescents, and ways of addressing fluency within content-based classroom instruction.
- Describe the role of vocabulary as a reading skill for adolescents, and ways of addressing vocabulary within content-based classroom instruction.
- Describe the role of text comprehension as a reading skill for adolescents, and ways of addressing text comprehension within content-based classroom instruction.
- Describe the role of reading assessment within content-based classroom instruction.
- Describe the role of writing for adolescents, and ways of improving writing within content-based classroom instruction.
- Describe the role of motivation for adolescent readers, and ways of increasing motivation within content-based classroom instruction.
- Describe the needs of diverse adolescent learners with literacy issues within content-based classroom instruction.
Author(s):
National Institute for Literacy
The National Institute for Child Health and Human Development
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Vocational and Adult Education
National Institutes of Health
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APA: American Psychological Association
ASWB: Association of Social Work Boards (#1046)
CDR: Commission on Dietetic Registration (#PR001)
NBCC: National Board for Certified Counselors (#5590)
NAADAC: National Association of Alcohol & Drug Abuse Counselors (#00279)
California: Board of Behavioral Sciences (#PCE1625)
Florida: Boards of SW, MFT & MHC (#BAP346); Psychology & School Psychology (#50-1635); Dietetics & Nutrition (#50-1635); Occupational Therapy Practice (#34). PDResources is CE Broker compliant.
Illinois: DPR for Social Work (#159-00531)
Ohio: Counselor, Social Worker & MFT Board (#RCST100501)
South Carolina: Board of Professional Counselors & MFTs (#193)
Texas: Board of Examiners of Marriage & Family Therapists (#114) & State Board of Social Worker Examiners (#5678)