Literacy In the Content Areas

1. Literacy In the Content Areas Thomas Jefferson Middle School Beth Raines 2011

3. Recommendations • Provide explicit vocabulary instruction • Provide direct and explicit comprehension strategy instruction • Provide opportunities for extended discussion of text meaning and interpretation • Increase student motivation and engagement in literacy learning • Make available intensive and individualized interventions for struggling readers that can be provided by trained specialists http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/pdf/practiceguides/adlit_pg_082608.pdf

4. Intervention Strategies

5. What strategies are effective? • Initial screening assessment to identify those students who need extra help. • Diagnostic tests to provide a profile of literacy strengths and weaknesses. http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/pdf/practiceguides/adlit_pg_082608.pdf

6. What strategies are effective? Focus on reading strategies based on student testing. These elements include: • phonemic awareness • phonemic decoding • text reading fluency • strategies for building vocabulary • strategies for understanding and using the specific textual features that distinguish different genres • self-regulated use of reading comprehension strategies http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/pdf/practiceguides/adlit_pg_082608.pdf