English Language Arts Six Instructional Shifts Focus on Shift 2: Literacy Across All Content Areas
Dec 13, 2015
English Language Arts
Six Instructional Shifts
Focus on Shift 2:
Literacy Across All Content Areas
S I X I N S T R U C T I O N A L S H I F T S E L A A N D L I T E R A C Y
Shift 1: Balance of literature and informational text
Shift 2: Literacy across all content areas (6-12)
Shift 3: Staircase of complexity
Shift 4: Question and Answers: text-dependent
Shift 5: Writing to inform or argue using evidences
Shift 6: Academic Vocabulary
SHIFT 2KNOWLEDGE IN THE DISCIPLINES
Literacy standards (6-12) are predicated on
teachers in ELA, social studies, science and
technical subjects using their content area
expertise to help students meet the particular
challenges of reading, writing, speaking, listening
and language in their respective fields.
GOALS OF SHIFT 2
•All content area teachers teach literacy in their discipline.
(school-wide content area literacy)
•Students build content knowledge through reading texts and writing about what they read.
•All content area teachers teach discipline-specific reading and writing strategies vs. a generic list
of strategies.
•Students read and write for multiple audiences and purposes across disciplines using text as a
source of evidence.
•Students apply literacy skills to content area texts; including primary and secondary documents.
VIDEO SUPPORT (3:50)
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