Shift 6: Literacy Instruction in all Content Areas

Awareness & Understanding

Learn about Literacy in the Content Areas

• Content Area Literacy    
• Building Knoweldge in the Disciplines    
• CCSS Hunt Institute Video: The Balance of Informational and Literary Texts in Grades K-5    
  This video can also be viewed on the Shift 1 page
• Literary Non-Fiction in the Classroom    
  This video can also be viewed on the Shift 1 page
• Literary Non-fiction in Grades 6-12    
  This video can also be viewed on the Shift 1 page

• Review the PowerPoint "Helping Students Meet the Reading CCSS in History/Social Studies and Science"    
  Source: Cynthia Shanahan, University of Illinois
• Read "Why Integrate Literacy and Social Studies?"    
• Primary Sources: At the Heart of the Common Core State Standards    
  In this feature article from the Teaching with Primary Sources Journal, the author discusses the role that primary sources can play in achieving the literacy skills required by the Common Core State Standards.

Compare the CCSS for Literacy to Oregon Standards

• 1. Examine the Oregon/CCSS correlation documents for the Social Sciences.
  Grade 6     Grade 7     Grade 8     High School

• 2. Examine the Oregon/CCSS correlation documents for Science.
  Grade 6     Grade 7     Grade 8     High School

• 3. Examine the alignment between the CCSS and the National Standards for Learning Languages.    
  Draft document from the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)

Read Text Selections from Your Subject Area

• Read samples of text for your grade level and/or subject from Appendix B.
  
  
  Grades 6-8      Grades 9/10      Grades 11/12

Transition

Learn About Content Area Literacy in the Classroom

• Take a deeper look at the CCSS for Science
  This module developed by the Rhode Island Department of Education is designed to help participants examine literacy in the science classroom.
• Session 1: Reading and Writing in the Science Classroom (Facilitator's Guide)    
  This facilitator's guide outlines how Session 1 strives to engage participants in evaluating the extent of literacy in the Science classroom.
• Session 1: Consensogram Charts (Handout)    
  These consensogram charts are to be used as part of Session 1.
• Session 2: The Place of Literacy in the Science Classroom (Facilitator's Guide)    
  This facilitator's guide outlines how Session 2 helps participants identify where the CCSS for Literacy in Science naturally compliment the skills that are already being built in the science classroom.
• Session 2: Lesson/Unit Plan review tool (Handout)    
  A tool to aid in reviewing units of study or lesson plans in light of the CCSS.

• Review CCSS Snapshots on Content Area Literacy
  K-5 Foundations (pp.4-14)
  K-5 Informational Text (pp.12-16)
  6-12 Informational Text (pp. 16-25)
  
  From "K-12 Teachers: Building Comprehension in the Common Core"

• Content Area Reading
  
  From "Oregon K-12 Literacy Framework: Professional Development" (pp. 4-5)

Dig Deeper into the Standards

• Delaware Literacy in History/Social Studies Concept Organizers    
  Explore the Literacy Concept Organizers for History/Social Stuides from the Delaware Department of Education
  

• Nicole Dalton     (503) 947-5603
  Teaching & Learning Team - Education Program Specialist