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).

Strategies to Engage All Readers in Content

Area Texts

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

Graffiti Boards

Comprehension Strategies

Journaling

Write about what DID happen.

Write about what you think will happen.

Comprehension Strategies

KWL Chart

Know Want to know Learned

“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.