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= = =BACKGROUND:= This wiki site is a space to capture thoughts, pictures and musings concerning content area literacy. The site reflects the work of our content area study team (CAST) that began in 2008. The work is sponsored by the National Writing Project (NWP), the Hudson Valley Writing Project (HVWP) and the Mid-Hudson Teacher Center (MHTC).

=INVITATION:= Are you interested in studying how literacy skills are used or can be used to help students become more proficient at reading, writing or speaking about a particular area of content? Are you looking to share your work on how you engage students in the learning of content material, make information comprehensible and accessible to students or assess learning outcomes in order to know what students learned-and what they have not yet learned with supportive and reflective colleagues? If so, we invite you and friends who share these interests to look over our pages and if you would like more active participation, contact the HVWP at Director Hudson Valley Writing Project, State University of New York at New Paltz, 1 Hawk Drive, South Faculty Building, New Paltz, NY 12561-2442.

CAST involves an inquiry strand, a reading strand and a workshop strand. Through our inquiry strand we look collectively at student work generated in our classrooms to understand the use of literacy in the particular strategy. Our reading strand allows us to look collectively at published work in the field of content area literacy and develop resources to further such research. Our workshop strand endeavors to help participants name/know/share the strategic ways that they incorporate content area literacy in their classrooms and share this work at HVWP Content Area Conferences, Saturday seminars or as part of a Content Area In-service series.

We meet from 3:30 - 6:00 pm at Poughkeepsie Day School, Poughkeepsie, NY. Meeting dates for the 2011 - 2012 academic year are: 11/22, 12/3 (HVWP Sat Seminar 8:30 am - 1:00 pm, Ulster BOCES), 12/6, 1/10, 1/17, 1/24 (snow date).