Literature-Based Learning: Teaching Informational Text/Nonfiction (1-6) - EDU-X798L

Course Description

Discover How to Enhance Your Teaching and Student Learning with Informational Text and Nonfiction

This course offers new ways of creating lessons that implement the Common Core’s College and Career Readiness anchor standards for reading, Key Ideas and Details and Craft and Structure.  Teachers will understand how they can teach nonfiction standards in a much more engaging way.

Participants will:

• Identify and list new creative methods
• Develop new lesson plan ideas and activities
• Reflect and analyze how these new strategies will impact their teaching
• Construct a physical corner in their classroom, and create and explain a standards-based game

Learner Outcomes

• Be empowered to teach students how to deconstruct informational text/nonfiction by using the reading standards of Key Ideas and Details, and Craft and Structure
• Discover creative methods, activities and projects to best teach students how to understand nonfiction text
• Effectively use any informational text to create interesting and meaningful lessons for students
• Use self-reflection to enhance and strengthen teaching skills
• Synthesize the information and methods discovered into a creative learning game and a nonfiction corner in the classroom

Course Details

Number of Units: 3.0 graduate level extension credit(s) in semester hours

Who Should Attend: This course provides continuing education for teachers (Grades 1 - 6), beginning or veteran teachers, that want to use creative, fun and clear strategies in order to teach informational text/non-fiction as required under the Common Core State Standards.

Course Materials: No text required, however there is a requirement to have access to a designated grade level appropriate children's book (titles provided in the course) that can be found in either your classroom or your school or public library, or purchased at your local bookstore or online at Amazon.com. This course can be completed with or without students.

Testimonials

"Thank you for designing this effective course because the ideas I have gained from it will greatly benefit my students this year and in the years to come as my students and I explore together how to become the best writers possible." -- Scott C., Teacher, 4th Grade

"This course has given me several new ideas to use, not only my for reading and language classes, but for other subjects like history and science as well. I particularly loved the idea of implementing an artistic aspect to the teaching of California Common Core State Standards. My students were incredibly engaged. All in all, this course was so helpful in so many ways. I am leaving it with ideas for new teaching strategies and exciting new tools to share with my teaching team at school. I love the ideas of flexibility and different teaching strategies to help meet the needs of all of my students. I also loved having created and modified so many tools that I can and will use throughout my career." -- Mary O., Teacher, 6th Grade

"This course was beneficial to me as an educator because it reminded me that students learn more when the content is engaging. The course allowed me to take time to create those engaging lessons for my students, teach them, and reflect on them." -- Megan R., Teacher, 6th Grade, Long Beach, CA

"This course was more than sufficiently effective in preparing to teach my students standards relating to nonfiction texts. The new strategies I have acquired in this course would affect and change my teaching by helping me realize the plethora of ways I can engage students when teaching them nonfiction text standards." -- Kristy Kairis, 2nd Grade Teacher

Applies Towards the Following Certificate(s), Professional Programs and Series

• Literacy Toolbox Series : Courses - Enroll in One or More