Content+Area+Literacy

History and Literacy

It is critical that history be taught through literacy. Much of what we learn in our academics is taught through literacy. Teachers should utilize expository texts in hisotry to assist students in learning, not only the factually based information but, also to broaden the students experience in literacy. Students read in content areas by usig prior knowledge, new information and predict.

Children who cannot read are not able to develop content knowledge. Using various reading strategies can assist students in earning both content and fluency.

US History and Children's Literature List of books that allow children to learn history through literacy. [|Children's History Literature]

Discussion on importance of literacy in content area.

[|Literacy Matters]

The websites below help to develop students success in reading fluency as well as content area.

[|Guidelines for Student Hand Outs] Here is a collection of guidelines, checklists, and assessment tools to start think-aloud strategies with students. It is taken from Jeff Wilhelm's book //Improving Comprehension With Think-Aloud Strategies//.

[|Help Students Read] This web page offers over 50 resources and materials to help educators improve reading outcomes for students in grades K-12, prevent reading difficulties from developing in the early grades, and meet instructional challenges of students’ diverse abilities and readiness for learning to read.

[|Reading Workshop] This web site provides an overview of reading comprehension and lessons for each reading strategy.

[|Content Area Instruction] This article on middle-grades reading instruction gives an overview of issues involved in content reading and describes strategies for before, during, and after reading

[|Collaborative Strategic Reading] The Southwest Educational Development Laboratory gives an overview of Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR), which is a set of four strategies to aid in decoding and comprehending content area text. It was developed for students with learning disabilities who are in general education classrooms. CSR integrates word identification, reciprocal reading, and cooperative learning.

[|Reading Across the Curriculum] This site describes reading strategies for content teachers and provides student reading checklists for different purposes: reading to be informed, reading to perform a task, and reading for literary experience.

[|Road Map to Content Area Reading] Middlewebs offers a downloadable map for reading nonfiction and questions for students to ask before, during, and after reading a social studies example.