How to Embed the Seven Essential Literacy Skills into Your Content Area

Links for today’s presentation:

A Framework for Lesson Planning

Embedding Literacy Across the Curriculum

Applying Literacy Standards Across Content Areas

Lesson Plan for Composing a Summary

• Annotation Sentence Starters

• “Alligators Survive Cold Snap by Becoming ‘Frozen Solid” in North Carolina and Texas Ponds” 

• “All Summer in a Day”

• Write a Summary Worksheet

• 5Ws and H for Short Stories

Lesson Plan for Identifying and Applying Inference

• “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street” 

• “The Scarlatti Tilt” 

• It’s hard to live in a studio apartment in San Jose with a man who’s  learning  to  play  the  violin.’  That’s  what  she told  the police when she handed them the empty revolver.

• My Evidence Worksheet

• What’s the Subtext?

Lesson Plan to Identify Cause-Effect Relationships

• “The last Salem witch has been exonerated, thanks to an eighth-grade teacher and her students”

• “How Students Use AI vs. How Teachers Think They Use It, In Charts”

• Exploring Cause and Effect Chart

• Causes, Effects, and Solutions Chart