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Betsy Butler, Teaching Channel

7 Essential Skills for Literacy

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Teaching literacy is not an additional task, because literacy skills are used in all content areas. Every teacher must be a teacher of literacy.

• Physical Education: Skill demonstrations, journaling, or analyzing fitness plans

• Math: Solve the quadratic equation x^2 + 5x + 6 = 0 using the quadratic formula.

Locate the Main Idea and Supporting Details

• Science: Summarize data from labs and other learning experiences

• Social Studies: Summarize primary documents, historical articles, research projects.

Compose a Summary

• Physical Education: Verbal cues and prompts for skills

• Art: Vocabulary journals, and art critique

Interpret and Apply Academic Vocabulary

• Math: Estimate answers to see if they make sense, or figure out the pattern in a sequence of numbers.

• Science: Create scientific scenarios and reading comprehension with scientific texts

Identify and Apply Inference

• English/Language Arts: Analyze text structure, and use graphic organizers

• World Language: Act out scenarios depicting event and consequence

Identify and Understand Cause-Effect Relationships

• Math: Comparing numbers and operations, mathematical concepts, and problem solving strategies.

• ELA: Compare and contrast themes, characters, ideas, and literary devices.

Identify and Understand Relationships using Compare and Contrast

• Math: Break down proofs step-by-step to understand conclusions, and evaluate different ways to solve problems.

• Art: Analyze artwork to understand the artist's message or argument.

Delineate and Evaluate Arguments

Stronger Readers and Writers

Ripple Effect- Strengthen One, Strengthen All

Practicing the Skills Does Not Mean an Overhaul

The 7 Essential Skills Are Versatile

Course 5360: Boost Literacy and Critical Thinking in All Content Areas

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