Category: Literacy and Comprehension

Utilizing challenging pieces of text in our content area classrooms is a great way to support students in both their content area comprehension and their literacy growth. When accessing a piece of text in your class, how can you get students critically thinking, writing, listening, and speaking? How can you scaffold instruction so that each student (regardless of their literacy strengths and areas of need) can access the text and apply what they know? How can you connect a piece of text to the experiences, interests, and funds of knowledge that a student already brings into the classroom? Informational texts...