How Important Is Teaching Literacy In All Content Areas Summary

In Rebecca Alber’s article How Important is Teaching Literacy in All Content Areas? She suggest having a high interest classroom library for students. I selected a book from their Daily 5 library, The Penny Pot by Stuart J. Murphy and published by Scholastic, Inc. It was under the category “Math”. The students in my small group had never looked at the books in that category. If it was labeled ‘money’ that might have peak their interest. The Daily 5 library gives the students the opportunity to select books that interest them. Their reading stamina continues to increase during reading class. The lesson I created and implemented was for my 2nd grade math tier class. These students meet for approximately 35 minutes five days a week. I had prepared the book before class by …show more content…
The reading assessment strategy I chose was observation through Think Alouds. The reason I picked this strategy was to help by students develop their comprehension when reading and to build background knowledge of how money is used in the real world. Both of these reasons are attributed to helping students develop higher order thinking according to the article Tools for Providing Feedback in Writing by SERVE and the North Carolina Department of Public Instructions, https://wvlearns.k12.wv.us/d2l/le/content/18615/viewContent/767003/View page 6. During the Think Aloud I used the strategy of predictions and connections and Think-Share-Pair. The class started with me explaining what a Think Aloud was and my expectations for them. I began by reading the title, author and