Online Resources for Literacy in the Content Area

National Geographic Society is AMAZING!!! Click now, you won’t be disappointed! https://www.nationalgeographic.com/education/ Support for reading in the content areas? 👍 Click on the little magnifying glass and type in “writing”.   It leads you to 208 results! You can narrow your search by subject, grade, and type (lesson, video, activity, etc.).   Just a few of the lessons I saw were robotics, oceans, history, geography, and energy. The list goes on and on! Type in ‘reading” and you will see 252 results. Again, a multitude of sources!   For kicks, I typed in “reading in math”. Guess what? There were 297 results! I know. I was shocked too!   Currency, STEM, measurements, golden ratio, it’s all too much for my brain to handle! 😲 Go to teaching resources in the navigation bar and click on units. Under subjects, choose reading. A project based learning unit with nine lessons that incorporate literacy? Yes, thank you!       Ease of...

edutopia.org requires you to sign in but it’s totally painless. Just click on your icon of choice (Twitter, Google, etc.) and you are automatically signed up and signed in!   Support for reading in the content areas 👌 edutopia.org There is no “button” for this but I did put in a search: literacy in the content area. This yielded 176 results to a variety of blogs and articles.  When I searched for “reading in the content area”, I found 435 articles and blogs that offered a variety of content areas from math to technology to STEM.  Many of the articles include videos. You can even comment on the article and start a discussion.   Ease of navigation ⛜ Topics, videos, community, sign in, and the magnifying glass icon are the five buttons on the orange navigation bar.  Super clean!  The orange bar also has the edutopia logo that takes you to the homepage. No matter where I visited within the site or what I clicked on, the orange bar was al...

readingrocket.org When I opened this site, I was immediately wowed! The bright colors , graphics, and photographs were eye appealing.   Did I want to investigate more based on the visual aesthetics? Yes! There is however, more to a website than visual appeal. Okay let's get practical.  The purpose of this website is to provide information. Bring on the meat and potatoes!  🍴 What about support for reading in the content areas ? 📖 This site contains over 100 articles from 2008 to 2017 that support reading in the content areas. What areas? Everything from science to math, to ELL and STEM.  I was impressed.   The articles appear to be a mix of Reading Rockets authors and university professors.  There is a nice variety of primary and secondary articles.  It's an all-you-can-eat meat and potatoes smorgasbord!   Ease of navigation ? 🔍 I must admit, I was a bit overwhelmed ...