Content+Literacy+Strategies

=2011-2012 Readings= In this chapter, one gets a view of how a teacher works with middle school students reading and making sense of a primary source document using "the workshop model."

Writing Across the Hidden Curriculum - Strong =2010 - 2011 Readings= > Copyright © 2010 by the Center on Instruction at RMC Research Corporation =2009 - 2010 Readings=
 * Bringing Literacy Strategies Into Content Instruction, Professional Learning for Secondary-Level Teachers by Marcia L. Kosanovich, Deborah K. Reed, and Debra H. Miller
 * [[file:Shanahan article.pdf]] Thoughts about rethinking Content-Area Literacy, how to instruct and how literacy specialists can assist content area teachers.
 * ** [] ** Authors investigate the myth that reading is a broad, generalized skill that is easily measured and assessed. Discussion include "decoding", the ability to translate written symbols into sounds, versus reading comprehension, the ability to extract meaning from text.
 * []A collection of four essays that discuss learning expectations and criteria for composing and evaluating digital compositions.
 * http://performanceassessment.org/performance/index.html
 * [|http://www.ttms.org/] Includes a pdf entitled, "Tools for Reading the Content Area" which has strategies to help students succeed as they move from the familiar world of fiction to nonfiction reading across the curriculum.
 * __Reading for Understanding: A Guide to Improving Reading in Middle and High School Classrooms__ by Schoenbach and others