How? Pure and simple - integrate science or social studies with literacy!

Integration of literacy in the content area has been proven to

- Engage, Motivate and Excite our kids

- BUT...curriculum matters - Choose high quality curriculum to support your literacy needs. Ex: FOSS science

- Use Text as tools!

• nonfiction
• poetry
• narrative nonfiction
• historical fiction
• realistic fiction
• persuasive text
• articles
• procedural text
• infographics
• etc!!!

-Safeguard time for teaching social studies and science in your schedule during the day.

Partnering active hands-on or real world scenarios in the classroom with engaging text is where the magic happens!

I hope this answers some of your questions!

Hello,

This is a follow up to episodes 1 and 2 as we continue to explore the article featured on ASCD on Knowledge Building curriculum. Today we tackle ways to help children access complex text.

- Through Read Aloud

- How it supports Foundational Skills

- Comprehension Strategies for Sense Making

I hope this will help you clarify the role that Knowledge Building has in your classroom!

Last episode we talked about how vocabulary and language are a key building block for building knowledge and comprehension. In this episode (while my dog barks loudly outside) I will share more insights from part 2 of the ascd article on HOW to build a language rich classroom through:

- play

- talk

- conversations

- read aloud

- print

and more!