Sentences with phrase «comprehension across the content areas»

The November issues of EL and ASCD Express on «Tackling Informational Texts» were so popular, we've returned to the topic with even more practical strategies and advice for working with complex texts and developing deep comprehension across all content areas.

Vermont's standards for early childhood education teachers make no mention of informational texts and only require that a teacher «employs a range of instructional approaches to support comprehension across the content areas.»

The Common Core State Standards emphasize student interaction with increasingly complex informational text and the need for deep comprehension across all content areas.

This issue will include all - new, original, practitioner - submitted strategies and advice for meeting and exceeding the Common Core State Standards» emphasis on increasingly complex informational text and the need for deep comprehension across all content areas.

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Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

The CALS construct is defined as a constellation of the high - utility language skills that correspond to linguistic features prevalent in oral and written academic discourse across school content areas and that are infrequent in colloquial conversations (e.g., knowledge of logical connectives, such as nevertheless, consequently; knowledge of structures that pack dense information, such as nominalizations or embedded clauses; knowledge of structures for organizing argumentative texts) Over the last years, as part of the Catalyzing Comprehension Through Discussion Debate project funded by IES to the Strategic Educational Research Partnership, Dr. Paola Uccelli and her research team have produced a research - based, theoretically - grounded, and psychometrically robust instrument to measure core academic language skills (CALS - I) for students in grades 4 - 8.

With teacher clarity in think alouds, we promote comprehension for readers across content areas and text genre.

Disciplinary literacy is framed as «content area reading instruction, or a way of teaching cognitive strategies across various content area classrooms to promote comprehension.»

Tennessee also requires middle school teachers to pass the Praxis Teaching Reading: Elementary Education test, which, under the heading «reading comprehension strategies across text types,» requires teachers to know «how to select and use a variety of informational, descriptive, and persuasive materials at appropriate reading levels to promote students» comprehension of nonfiction, including content - area texts.»