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7 Essential Skills for Literacy
Betsy Butler, Teaching Channel
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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.
Locate the Main Idea and Supporting Details
- Math: Solve the quadratic equation x^2 + 5x + 6 = 0 using the quadratic formula.
- Physical Education: Skill demonstrations, journaling, or analyzing fitness plans
Compose a Summary
- Social Studies: Summarize primary documents, historical articles, research projects.
- Science: Summarize data from labs and other learning experiences
Interpret and Apply Academic Vocabulary
- Art: Vocabulary journals, and art critique
- Physical Education: Verbal cues and prompts for skills
Identify and Apply Inference
- Science: Create scientific scenarios and reading comprehension with scientific texts
- Math: Estimate answers to see if they make sense, or figure out the pattern in a sequence of numbers.
Identify and Understand Cause-Effect Relationships
- World Language: Act out scenarios depicting event and consequence
- English/Language Arts: Analyze text structure, and use graphic organizers
Identify and Understand Relationships using Compare and Contrast
- ELA: Compare and contrast themes, characters, ideas, and literary devices.
- Math: Comparing numbers and operations, mathematical concepts, and problem solving strategies.
Delineate and Evaluate Arguments
- Art: Analyze artwork to understand the artist's message or argument.
- Math: Break down proofs step-by-step to understand conclusions, and evaluate different ways to solve problems.