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Reading is Thinking!

 

Click on these links for more resources: 

                     Balanced Literacy

              Guided Reading Resources
                  Other Teaching Resources
                RtI 

              

   Content Area Literacy

           Click on your subject area to get great content literacy strategies for your classroom:

 

           Science            Social Studies            Math

 

TextStructure_CompareContrast_LP.pdf  

TextStructure_CauseEffect_LP.pdf

Summarizing_LP.pdf

ActivatingPriorKnowledge_LP-1.pdf

GeneratingQuestions_LP.pdf

  

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. 

 

Top 10 Resources on Literacy in the Content Areas Reading Rockets

 

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.

 

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. 

 

Content Literacy LiveBinder - DPI resource 

 

Subjects Matter chapter1 .pdf

 

 

Text Sites:

News ELA

Tween Tribune

Teaching Kids News

 Badgerlink

Dogonews

Time for Kids

Science News for Kids

Social Studies for Kids

NY Times Learning Network

PBS 

CNN Student News

The Week.com

Article of the Week 

The New Yorker

New York Times

Time Magazine

 

 

 

Graphic Organizer Sites:

 

Education Place

 

Balanced Reading

 

Scholastic Red

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

Links:

  South Central Library System 

 

AFMS Homepage

 

Middle School Wiki