Does Reading Matter?

Are you seeking new strategies for cultivating or supporting deep reading in your students?

Organized by the Faculty Initiative on Teaching Reading (FITR) and facilitated by Emral Devany (Biological Sciences), the “Does Reading Matter?” FIG will explore reading in STEM courses.

STEM and literacy are often considered as two different goals in education. However in order to become successful in STEM, students must develop and use strong literacy skills. The importance of effective reading in STEM cannot be overstated: students must comprehend highly technical texts that use content specific vocabulary, interpret and make connections between these texts and communicate the complex concepts they learned clearly. All these tasks require advanced literacy skills. By integrating literacy and STEM, we can give our students a much higher chance to succeed in STEM careers.

Join us to discuss how we can successfully cultivate deep reading in our STEM courses.

For more information  please contact Emral at emral.devany@kbcc.cuny.edu  and please see our work on the CUNY Academic Commons. 

 

For more information  please contact Emral at emral.devany@kbcc.cuny.edu  and please see our work on the CUNY Academic Commons.