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

Question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

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.