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
