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Engaging All Learner’s in Content Area Reading
Reading and Writing in the Content AreasAll Teachers Working Together to Improve
Student Academic Literacy
Presentation By: Kelli M. MillerOklahoma State University
Spring 2011CIED 5433
“I think about reading my VCR programming manual. With that
text, I’m a struggling reader.” (Beers, 2003).
“I pick up the IRS tax booklet and I am not only a struggling
reader but also a reluctant one.” (Beers, 2003).
Trade booksLynch-Brown, Tomlinson, and Short (2011) differentiate between textbooks and trade
books by defining textbooks as books designed for instructional purposes. Trade books are books written for informational
and entertainment purposes.
Comprehension Strategies
Journaling
Write about what DID happen.
Write about what you think will happen.
“Reading is a different task when we read literature, science texts, historical analyses, newspapers, tax forms. This is why teaching students how to read the texts of academic disciplines is a key part of teaching them these disciplines.”
(Key Ideas of the Strategic Literacy Initiative, 2001)
Works Cited(No Author). The Strategic Literacy Initative. (2011) Retrieved 03/02, 2011, from http://www.wested.org/stratlit/about/keyideas.shtml
Beers, K. (2003). When Kids Can't Read. Portsmouth: Heinemann.
Lynch-Brown, C., Tomlinson, C. M., & Short, K. G. (2011). Essentials of Children's Literature (Seventh ed.). Boston: Pearson.