This online Content Area Reading course developed by Pearson Teacher Education and Development offers instructors a rich online course built around assignments and activities, classroom videos, and readings. Weekly assignments are focused on essential course concepts and provide well-structured and effective learning activities. Once students complete these assignments they are given opportunities to discuss and reflect upon what they have learned. Students are then led tomeaningful weekly activities that require them to apply what they have learned. Available for most course management systems, this course is customizable and can easily accommodate and adapt to instructors' own resources and materials.

Basic Course Components

Course Documents

• Online Student Manual
• Course Syllabus
• Course Reading Assignments from Leading Texts
• Rubrics
• Online Resources
• Bloom's Taxonomy
• Lesson Plan Template
• Microsoft Tutorials

Weekly Assignments

• Learning Objectives
• Learning Log
• Reading Assignments
• Viewing Activities
• Theory Into Practice Exercises
• Discussion Board Questions
• Synthesize/Apply/Reflect Exercises
• Assignment Guidelines
• Additional Resources

Content Area Reading Course Topics

• Literacy in the Content Areas
• Motivation
• Striving Readers
• Vocabulary
• Comprehension
• Writing to Learn
• Literacy Through Technology
• Assessing Literacy Progress

Books Aligned to the Course

• Alvermann, D.E., Phelps, S.F., & Gillis, V.R. (2010) Content Area Reading and Literacy: Succeeding in Today's Diverse Classroom (with MyEducationLab). (6th ed.) Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon.
  ISBN-10: 013610102X
  
• Brozo, W. G. & Simpson, M.L. (2007) Content Literacy for Today's Adolescents: Honoring Diversity and Building Competence. (5th ed.) Columbus, OH: Merrill.
  ISBN-10: 0132286718
  
• Conley, M.W. (2008) Content Area Literacy: Learners in Context. Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon.
  ISBN-10: 0205455980
  
• McKenna, M . & Robinson, R.D. (2009) Teaching Through Text: Reading and Writing in the Content Areas. Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon.
  ISBN-10: 0132074729
  
• McLaughlin, M. (2010) Content Area Reading: Teaching and Learning in an Age of Multiple Literacies (with MyEducationLab). Boston, MA:Allyn & Bacon.
  ISBN-10: 0136101313
  
• Unrau, N. (2008). Content Area Reading and Writing: Fostering Literacies in Middle and High School Cultures. (2nd ed.) Columbus, OH: Merrill.
  ISBN-10: 0132298546
  
• Vacca. R.T & Vacca, J.L. (2008) Content Area Reading: Literacy and Learning Across the Curriculum. (9th ed.) Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon.
  ISBN-10: 0205532152