Content Literacy is the incorporation of reading and writing into curricula for specific content areas. Content Literacy requires students to acquire and apply reading and writing stategies. Students build an understanding using both general skills and content-specific skills. The activation of prior knowledge through reading, the acquisition of comprehension, the development and synthesis of information, and the inferential development to create questions require us as professionals to provide and promote opportunities for such growth. The experience of learning should not be passive. Students need to be actively engaged in reading and writing to construct knowledge. Content Literacy has students pull from prior knowledge, connect the past to new ideas and concepts, meaningfully synthesize information, and develop key understandings that a imperative to content area understanding. Educators need to use a variety of resources including texts, tradebooks, journals, the internet, photographs, etc. Reading and writing are social activities that are fundemental to communication. Content Literacy will create lifelong learners, that actively become thinkers.Literacy skills are vital to succes in today's technically advancing society. Essential to one's success is the ability to access, understand, and use different types of information. Learning how to learn is the vital to the success of our future. To learn more about Content Literacy: check out http://www.literacy.uconn.edu.com