This website reviews classroom strategy instruction as the core of good comprehension instruction. It provides information on before, during, and after reading that can be used with students in the classroom.

In this novel by Joan Franklin Smutny and S.E. Von Fremd, the authors review how to differentiate the curriculum for young children with the goal of meeting a wide range of learning needs. They review how to prepare a classroom for differentiated instruction, how to assess primary learners, strategies for differentiating learning, and finally, how to apply differentiated learning across all of the content areas.

This textbook provides teachers with strategies that can be used during instruction in each of the content areas. At the start of each chapter, there is a graphic organizer which provides a framework of knowledge on topics of literacy and learning across the content areas. There are also multiple activities included in each chapter that are designed to assist the reader in thinking and discussion. This textbook is separated into five parts with each one providing information that will help educate students in a classroom.

This textbook is written by Carolyn Chapman and Rita King. These authors discuss how to infuse reading into the content areas and how to create a climate to motivate readers. They review strategies to access a reader and how to decode properly. There is also a review of how to teach vocabulary and comprehension, as well as ways to implement a school wide planning tool.

The Reading Rockets website provides a multitude of different resources covering literacy in the sciences, linking the language as a cross-disciplinary vocabulary approach, building word knowledge, and how to use technology to support struggling students. Throughout this site you will also be able to discover ways to support core literacy skills like vocabulary development, reading comprehension, and higher order thinking throughout content area instruction.

This article reviews how literacy fits into all of the content areas. There is a review of reading, writing, thinking and speaking and how each of those are important in a student’s learning process. Throughout this article you will find many strategies that can assist a teacher in educating their students in literacy, as well as best practices for classroom instruction.

In this video, Maggie Brenenstuhl discuses reading and writing across the content areas, with a focus on ELA and beyond. By exposing students to reading and writing across the content areas, they will learn the academic language they need to be successful in that subject. This video explains this further.

Throughout this video, the speaker discusses a new nation-wide initiative related to the implementation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). All school-based teacher leaders will need to understand the Common Core and promote understanding and application of the Core in their schools.

Marcia Russell discusses content area reading strategies to differentiate instruction. She also shows adaptations that can be used depending on student’s needs.

Professor Daniel Willingham describes why content knowledge is essential to reading with comprehension, and why teaching reading strategies alone is not sufficient that students read with good comprehension.