Content Area Literacy
Helps students visualize relationships between ideas, often used for cause and effect, compare and contrast, or sequencing.
What is a graphic organizer or concept map?
This type of group work divides students into roles such as summarizer, questioner, and clarifier to promote discussion.
What is a literature circle or structured group role?
This type of literacy involves teaching students how to read, write, and think like experts in a specific field.
What is disciplinary literacy?
This teaching strategy involves breaking complex tasks into smaller, manageable parts.
What is scaffolding?
This type of questioning promotes extended responses rather than simple yes/no answers.
What are open-ended questions?
This strategy involves students writing briefly about what they’ve learned to solidify understanding and reflect.
What is a quick write?
This strategy, often paired with movement, involves students discussing a topic with multiple partners as they rotate around the room.
What is a gallery walk or carousel discussion?
This skill involves interpreting graphs, charts, and data sets to draw conclusions.
What is analyzing data or data literacy?
This type of learning integrates multiple subject areas into a single lesson or activity.
What is interdisciplinary learning?
In classrooms with multilingual learners, this oral scaffolding strategy encourages repeated exposure to academic language.
What is sentence framing or sentence stems?
This type of annotation strategy encourages students to underline, highlight, and write notes in the margins to interact with text.
What is close reading?
This structured discussion format requires students to provide evidence to support their claims in response to a prompt.
What is a Socratic seminar?
Historians use this skill to evaluate the reliability of a source.
What is sourcing?
Reading and writing practices that involve digital tools like blogs, podcasts, or social media.
What are "new literacies"?
Name the instructional strategy where students talk with one or two other students to process information or answer questions.
What is think-pair-share?
Literacy skills that can be applied across a variety of subjects (i.e. summarizing , skimming and scanning).
What are content literacy skills?
Name the method that allows students to use body movements or gestures to support understanding and engagement.
What is Total Physical Response (TPR)?
Analyzing the author’s use of diction, syntax, and tone develops this literacy skill.
What is rhetorical analysis?
The integration of videos, images, and interactive elements into digital storytelling is an example of this.
What is "multimodal literacy"?
Using and adapting multiple linguistic codes based on cultural identity, purpose, audience, and social context.
What is code-switching?
This strategy involves activating prior knowledge, setting a purpose, and previewing text before reading.
What is pre-reading?
Incorporating student-led discussions into the classroom fosters this higher-order thinking skill.
What is critical thinking?
In math, this strategy helps students analyze word problems by breaking them into smaller steps.
What is problem decomposition?
This type of literacy focuses on questioning and analyzing the power, bias, and intent behind digital texts and media.
What is critical literacy?
Providing students with structured time to rehearse academic language builds this component of oral language.
What is fluency or oral proficiency?