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Reading is Thinking!
Click on your subject area to get great content literacy strategies for your classroom:
Science Social Studies Math
Webliography: Great resources and places to go to find information about reading in the content areas.
What is Content Area Reading? K12 Reader article on their website explains content area reading in an uncomplicated way. Also links to their other resources for reading education.
Middle School Edition: CONTENT AREA READING Tennessee Department of Education instruction of teaching content area reading, complete with specific activities and graphic organizers. It is very useful site with strategies, framework, and definitions for reading specific vocabulary. Great for teachers with little reading background.
Content Area Literacy A great site of links with everything from a booklist to strategies for teaching content area literacy. Check this site out for some great resources that could easily be turned into handouts for students.
Reading and Writing in the Academic Content Areas Article from the Alliance for Excellent Education Office Issue Brief that has great information about the variety of reading abilities in classroom and how to deal with struggling readers in content areas. It provides support for teaching reading and writing in content areas along with some strategies to accomplish this.
Read Write Think Website with great lesson plans to use in all content areas. Some are specific and some could be easily adapted to any content area.
Reading Strategies for the Social Studies Classroom This site has practice activities for struggling readers from Holt, Rhinehart, and Winston. Includes Implementations Guide and actual PDF worksheets to use in US and World History. It incorporates multiple strategies in each category.
Content Area Literacy Guide A Kentucky Literacy pdf which is a very thorough guide of definitions, rationale, and literacy support strategies for content literacy. I especially liked the illustration of the strategic teaching model.
Kathy Schrock's Guide: Fry's Readability Wondering how to tell what reading level your text is? This website has some ways to help.
Text Sites:
Badgerlink
Dogonews
Time for Kids
Science News for Kids
Social Studies for Kids
NY Times Learning Network
PBS
CNN Student News
Graphic Organizer Sites:
Education Place
Balanced Reading
Scholastic Red
Links:
AFMS Homepage
Middle School Wiki
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