What special steps would you take to develop improved proficiency in content area literacy among struggling readers and writers?

What will be an ideal response?


Steps that can be taken to develop improved proficiency in content area literacy among struggling readers and writers include the following:
• Assess students to find out their reading levels and obstacles that might hinder their learning of content.
• Obtain materials that are on the appropriate level. Might use periodicals, trade books, digital texts, and websites as well as textbooks or instead of textbooks. 
• Use or create scaffolds for difficult materials.
• Enhance content instruction: Select key content you wish students to learn, map organization of content, note obstacles to learning, decide how to teach content, teach content and enhancements, evaluate learning, revise as necessary.
• Apply principles of SMARTER
• Implement Sheltered English for English learners
• Develop ability to use text structure.
• Use anticipation guides, Frayer model, strategy guides, frames, glosses, WIRC, reflection, application, and graphic organizers.
• Use KWL.
• Use collaborative approaches: ReQuest, reciprocal teaching, and Questioning the Author.
• Build content knowledge.
• Monitor progress and adjust as necessary.

Education

You might also like to view...

Click on the sentence that uses hyphens correctly. Choose one answer.

a. There was a? ten-inch hole in the garage roof where the lightning struck. b. There was a? ten-inch hole in the? garage-roof where the lightning struck. c. There was a ten inch hole in the? garage-roof where the lightning struck.

Education

What do active listeners do when someone is speaking?

A. correct the other person B. formulate a response C. state their opinion D. reflect the speaker's thoughts

Education

To be effective, illustrations in children's books must

A. be colorful. B. be placed one on each page. C. contribute to the story's meaning. D. be realistic and true-to-life.

Education

Through sharing "authoring" activities such as story play and booklet and journal writing, children's classmates and teachers become _____________for language learning

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

Education