Reading across curriculum

This also goes to answer the question about "deeper reading". Where does this fit in the curriculum? AP Lang and Comp? Social Studies?

I got this from Feldman 6/15/2010 -- it's filed there. Research the Shanahan connection.

1) Center on Instruction - Adolescent Literacy Series

see: http://centeroninstruction.org/pdevents.cfm#69

The Academic Literacy Community of Practice webinar series provided Regional Comprehensive Center staff an opportunity to engage in an interactive learning process with Center on Instruction staff centered on adolescent literacy best practices used in traditional content-area classrooms in grades 4-12, including differentiated instruction for students with language needs, struggling students, and students with disabilities, and methods for disseminating useful information and resources to SEAs to enhance state-level literacy professional development. A series of five webinars held from February 2010 to June 2010. Implementation of best practices were examined and discussed within an RTI context where applicable. Each webinar is described below, with a link to the archived WebEx file, and PowerPoint presentations are available for download below.

** These presentations are uniformly excellent - depending on your background knowledge and professional interests... I just read Cynthia Shanahan's on Discipline Based Literacy in History/SS - mind blowing it was so good... takes comprehension instruction to a whole deeper level within the specific context of understanding history, (e.g. role of context, corroboration, sourcing, etc. - sample questions students need to learn to ask as they read:

•Who is the author? Can I trust what he/she says? Why or why not?

•Who was the author writing to? Why?

•When did the author write it? Does that make a difference?

•Do others agree? If not, who is more credible?

•What does the author say that makes him/her believable?

*** Might be useful if we ALL learned to ask these when watching TV news, reading newspapers, etc!!