February 18, 2009
New lesson plans demonstrate content-area literacy strategies
How can middle school and high school math, science, social studies, and English teachers use literacy instruction strategies to improve their students' achievement? The Knowledge Loom—the professional learning website developed by The Education Alliance—now features new lessons that give a window into how four successful teachers in New Hampshire and Maine have done it.
They include:
- a high school chemistry lesson introducing the mole
- a middle school social studies lesson about human-environmental interaction
- a high school English lesson to support short story analysis
- a middle school math lesson introducing measurement vocabulary
Download any of these lessons by visiting the Adolescent Literacy in the Content Areas section of The Knowledge Loom and following the "sample lessons" link to the content area that interests you. For more information about the strategies used, visit the promising practices, research summaries, school stories, and annotated resource links on the Loom.
The lessons were developed by participants in the 2007–2008 Adolescent Literacy Collaboratory, a long-term, job-embedded professional learning program.
