The course content is organized to support the current State of California and San Francisco bay area school district curricular practices and teacher expectations in the area of reading. Further, while the training provides a balanced reading curriculum, content area reading strategies form a major focus. The training also addresses strategies in the area of discipline, organization, and tutee mentoring. Finally the course organizes curricular activities to explore issues in educational equity, school dynamics and appropriate practices for working with second language learners.

Expanding Children's Language	Why talking helps and suggentions for things to talk about
Working with second language learners	Suggestions for ways to make communication easier
Dictation	Use this strategy to create text for the English learner to read
	Use also to give all children practice in recording their knowledge of sound-spelling correspondence
Labels and Diagrams Environmnental Print	Activities that scaffold instruction and provide familiar context for English learners

Looking at Books To Read Aloud	How to review a book you are about to read
Thinking about books to read aloud	Questions to ask yourself when you are deciding to use a particular book
Conversation During Reading Aloud	Suggests things to talk about with the child
Introducing a book	Actual text used by teachers. Gives illustration of things to say when you are introducing a book to a child