Who teaches students that science is structured differently than mathematics, or that reading historical text takes different strategies than navigating a poem or a fiction novel? The answer is- we must!
Success in the content areas of math, science, history, and others requires more than content knowledge. Students must be able to read, write, view, investigate, and communicate content area understandings. This is a literacy issue not a content knowledge issue.
This lesson explores with students the text features and structures of content area texts and demonstrates the reading and writing competencies needed to understand text independently.
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