Content Area Literacy

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Dr. Kimberly's Literacy Blog is a great resource to learn deeply about
Informational text has received much attention with the shift, in many states, to the Common Core standards. Sometimes teachers and students lump nonfiction and information text together. While that's not all together incorrect, informational text serves a specific purpose. Informational text serves ... Read More.

One of my personal Amazon lists.
As students transition from elementary to secondary the gap in their reading skills can hinder progress in content classes (math, science, social studies, etc.). Although most secondary content teachers are not explicitly taught how to teach their own content (and who is better skilled at that?).

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Miki (Mabelle) Murray is the coauthor or author of the popular Heinemann titles The Differentiated Math Classroom (2007) and Teaching Mathematics Vocabulary in Context (2004). In a thirty-five year career in mathematics education, she taught for more than twenty-five years, including time at Maine ’s Center for Teaching and Learning, and was a professional development provider for another ten.

Are you wondering about the Common Core State Standards? What about high quality instruction? In this section, we provide resources for teaching and learning across the grades and content areas.

One of my personal Amazon lists.
These books have been helpful with my thesis, NCTM presentation, but most importantly in my mathematics and science classrooms on a weekly basis.

Pins about Content Area Vocab hand-picked by Pinner Penny Christensen | See more about vocabulary instruction, common cores and Marzano.

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