Content Area Reading

What is an effective teacher?

"Effective teachers show students how to think, learn, and communicate with all kinds of texts."

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Be able to recognize

• teacher effectiveness
• Common Core State Standards
• Differentiated Instruction
• New Literacies
• Content literacy/disciplinary literacy
• Reading to learn

Content Counts!

Literacy is an evolving concept over time, how has it evolved?

What is traditional teaching?

"All too often, adolescent learners give up on reading with the expectation that teachers will impart information through:

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• lecture
• demonstration
• class discussion

However, this does not teach you to read.

No pat formulas will do this. No magic potions or strategies will work in all cases.

"Teaching is a problem-solving activity."

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