In ECI 541, Reading in the Content Areas, Dr. Huffman pushed us to think critically about the challenges of reading in the content areas and to explore the ways teachers can effectively integrate literacy into our classes.
One of my favorite assignments in this class was to choose a literacy strategy and write a position paper on it. You can view my position paper about Socratic Seminar below.
This strategy continues to be something I use frequently in my classroom and has proved to be engaging and highly effective for my sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students.
I also enjoyed creating and implementing a plan for a Scaffolded Reading Experience based on our course readings. My plan can be viewed below.