Content Literacy:

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Content Literacy
Every teacher a teacher of Reading.
William S. Gray, Professor Emeritus University of
Chicago, 1925
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Goals of the Initiative

• Develop a common understanding about strategic
  reading (philosophies and vocabulary)
• Implement selected research based content
  literacy reading strategies
• Improve reading comprehension in all subject
  areas
• Develop independent strategic readers and thinkers

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Goals of Session 2

• Increase understanding of how to help students
  become strategic readers
• Provide hands-on experience with a strategy for
  reading to learn

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Reading to Learn

• Reading is a process of constructing meaning in
  the mind of the reader.

• The reading process involves a dynamic
  interaction between the readers knowledge about
  the material, the information provided by the
  text, and the context of the reading situation.

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Reading to Learn

• Reading comprehension is the process of deriving
  meaning from the text and is key to learning in
  all content areas.

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Teacher Goals for Strategy Instruction

• Facilitate higher level thinking about the
  concept being studied

• Motivate learners and increase levels of learner
  engagement
• Create independent learners

• Increase retention, understanding, and ability to
  apply concrete learning

• Provide all students with a tool kit of fix-it
  strategies to apply when learning

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Strategy Zoom In Zoom Out

• Why Use the Strategy?
• Requires students to understand and condense
  information read
• Helps students practice the reading attribute
  summarizes information read
• Helps students remember the important ideas of a
  selection
• Helps students articulate specific information
  about a selection

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