Content Literacy Resources

Literacy Learning Exchange

Learn how Rowland High School is bridging academic vocabulary into everyday practice.

See how educators are teaching literacy across content areas.

View more content literacy video examples.

Gain support from school teams that have made the commitment to literacy as a shared responsibility in the Literacy In Learning Exchange.

Books and Journals 

• Entering the Conversations: Practicing Literacy in the Disciplines
  by Patricia Lambert Stock, Trace Schillinger, Andrew Stock
• Reading for Learning: Using Discipline-Based Texts to Build Content Knowledge
  by Heather Lattimer
• Power of Picture Books, The: Using Content Area Literature in Middle School
  by Mary Jo Fresch and Peggy Harkins (5-8)
• 360 Degrees of Text: Using Poetry to Teach Close Reading and Powerful Writing
  by Eileen Murphy Buckley
• Learning to Read the Numbers: Integrating Critical Literacy and Critical Numeracy in K-8 Classrooms
  by David and Phyllis Whitin
• Math Is Language Too: Talking and Writing in the Mathematics Classroom
  by David and Phyllis Whitin
• New Visions for Linking Literature and Mathematics
  by David and Phyllis Whitin
• WAC for the New Millennium: Strategies for Continuing Writing-Across-the-Curriculum Programs
  edited by Susan H. McLeod, Eric Miraglia, Margot Soven, and Christopher Thaiss

Listen as Antony T. Smith and Robin L. Angotti discuss their article "'Why Are There So Many Words in Math?': Planning for Content-Area Vocabulary Instruction" in the September 2012 issue of Voices from the Middle.

Online Learning

On Demand Web Seminar Package

Literacy Across the Disciplines (Grades 6-12) includes:

• All Teachers Are Not Teachers of Reading, but . . .  featuring Douglas Fisher
• Content Literacy: Four Factors in Building an Effective Instructional Framework featuring Douglas Fisher
• Content Reading for Content Learning featuring Heather Lattimer
• Middle School content Area Literature: Picturing the Possibilities featuring Mary Jo Fresch and Margaret Harkins
• Vocabulary Instruction Across the Content Areas featuring Douglas Fisher and Carol Rothenberg
• Writing in Every Content Area featuring Deborah Dean

Investigations
Investigations offer brief, self-paced online professional learning about the teaching shifts needed to help students prepare to meet college- and career-ready standards for learning.

Argumentation across the Disciplines (Grades 6-12)

Lesson Plans

ReadWriteThink.org Strategy Guide Series on teaching reading in the content areas

Preparing Students for Success with Reading in the Content Areas (6-12)

Supporting Student Comprehension in Content Area Reading (6-12)

NCTE Policy Briefs

Literacies of Disciplines: An NCTE Policy Research Brief
Published in The Council Chronicle (Sept 2011)

Reading and Writing across the Curriculum: An NCTE Policy Research Brief
Published in The Council Chronicle (March 2011)