Category: Integrating Literacy and Mathematics

    CourseworkInstructional Strategies in MathematicsIntegrating Literacy and MathematicsITL522 Content Area LiteracyMathematical Literacy DevelopmentNational University

    4 Instructional Strategies for Building Language/Literacy Skills in Mathematics

    How can you ensure listening, reading, writing, and speaking are all a part of your content area classroom? This is the challenge for each content-literacy teacher! How can our PE students explain a correct form of stretching? How can a French student hear accents and understand their difference? How can an Art student craft an artist statement to reflect their vision and purpose? How can a Math student identify the most important components of a word problem? How can a science student write a claim based on experimental data? These reflective questions provide teachers opportunities to design content-literacy experiences for...