20 Literacy Strategies to Meet the Common Core: Increasing Rigor in Middle & High School Classrooms

With the advent of the Common Core State Standards and high expectations with regard to content literacy, some secondary teachers are scrambling for what to do and how to do it. This book provides an accessible plan for implementing content literacy and offers 20 research-based literacy strategies designed to help students meet those standards and become expert readers.

Benefits:

• Learn 20 literacy strategies to help students become expert readers.
• Access activities, lesson plans, organizers, and other research-based tools that promote secondary content literacy.
• Strengthen your understanding of CCSS for English language arts and literacy in history/social studies, science, and technical subjects for grades 6-12.

Contents:
Strategy 1: Read-Decide-Explain
Strategy 2: Show You Know
Strategy 3: Prove It
Strategy 4: Read Like a Detective
Strategy 5: Question Like an Investigative Reporter
Strategy 6: Think Like a Private Investigator
Strategy 7: Snapshot Summary
Strategy 8: Identify-Analyze-Summarize
Strategy 9: What-How-Why (Individuals)
Strategy 10: What-How-Why (Events)
Strategy 11: What-How-Why (Ideas)
Strategy 12: Quick-REACH Vocabulary Toolkit
Strategy 13: Weigh the Words
Strategy 14: Identify-Analyze-Relate (Problem-Solution)
Strategy 15: Identify-Analyze-Relate (Cause-Effect)
Strategy 16: Purpose-Content-Style
Strategy 17: Navigate-Integrate-Evaluate
Strategy 18: Delineate-Evaluate-Explain
Strategy 19: Analyze-Compare-Write
Strategy 20: Literacy Rehearsal

Elaine K. McEwan-Adkins, EdD, is a consultant who has served as a teacher, a librarian, a principal, and an assistant superintendent for instruction in several suburban Chicago school districts.

Dr. McEwan-Adkins has been honored by the Illinois Principals Association as an outstanding instructional leader, by the Illinois State Board of Education with an Award of Excellence in the Those Who Excel Program, and by the National Association of Elementary School Principals as the 1991 National Distinguished Principal from Illinois.

Dr. McEwan-Adkins is the author of more than 35 books for parents and educators. Her titles include Teach Them All to Read; and Ten Traits of Highly Effective Schools.

She received an undergraduate degree in education from Wheaton College and a master's degree in library science and a doctorate in educational administration from Northern Illinois University.

Allyson J. Burnett is a retired teaching veteran with 20 years of experience in the classroom and 10 years in instructional leadership. A reading specialist and independent consultant, she presents at regional, state, and national conventions. Through her work, Allyson shows content teachers how to use strategies to help students master the College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Grades 6-12.

Allyson has traveled all over the country to consult with schools in a variety of areas. She specializes in helping schools implement literacy strategies into all classrooms by creating and building the capacity of a cross-curricular literacy cohort. Her expertise is in helping these cohorts become experts at making text accessible to students and guiding the cohorts as they become presenters to and peer coaches for their content colleagues.

Allyson has coauthored a comprehension workbook for grades 4-8, as well as articles published in Principal Leadership and the Texas Study of Secondary Education.