In middle and high schools, students spend most of their time in content-area classes like social studies, science, and mathematics, where they rely on information texts to support their understanding of new course concepts. As students engage with increasingly complex texts, they need a range of strategies to understand and recall the information they read. Research shows that when content-area teachers explicitly teach evidence-based literacy strategies to support reading comprehension in their discipline, it has positive impacts on student achievement. Within this site, you will find examples of evidence-based strategies designed specifically to be used in each content area.