Online Resources for Literacy in the Content Area

The National Center for Fair & Open Testing https://www.fairtest.org/ The mission is to end the misuses and flaws of standardized testing and to ensure that evaluations are transparent and fair for students, teachers, and schools.   Support for reading in the content areas?  ↴ The only way you will find the word literacy or reading on this site is to type it into the search bar. I did so and found articles and papers written on legislation, reform, the high stakes testing debate, funding, and assessment. There are no actual classroom or teacher resources available that support reading in the content area.     Ease of navigation?   ☺ The search bar includes the following: public schools, college admissions, newsletter, fact sheets, act now, news, and other resources.   No matter what I clicked on, except for useful links, I never left the site and the menu bar was always there.   I say it passed the Gomer Pyle test.   ...

http://www.colorincolorado.org/ What a gem for English language learner (ELL) teachers and ALL educators. This website offers research-based information on bilingual activities and advice for educators and families of ELL learners.  Support for reading in the content areas?  🌝 Sure! In the navigation bar, click on “Teaching ELLs” and click on “literacy instruction”. Here you will find videos of teachers working with students (k-12) using various instructional methods on language development.  Also under this tab is “Language & Vocabulary Instruction” where you will find more instructional videos, research, and articles. I typed in the search bar, “reading in the content area” and found that reading comprehension should be the focus in every content area. There are articles here as well. Ease of navigation?  👀 Look at these eyes! The site is easily navigable. The menu bar never disappears and the headings are bold blue. The crisp white backgroun...

http://www.studygs.net/shared/studying.htm Study Guides And Strategies Support for reading in the content areas? 8… because nothing is perfect Well, I would say so with a section of the website dedicated to reading and research. The section includes but not limited to, reading critically, which comes with a nice fill out the chart exercise: FREE resource!! Others include speed and comprehension, reading essays, reading fiction, writing lab reports, word problems, you name it! Just click on what you need and it’s all free. It's like Teachers Pay Teachers but you don’t pay.  These great little literacy resources can be applied to all content areas. Ease of navigation? 10… I lied, this is perfect. 😎 I think so. It has a site map! Want to find something fast or arbitrary? Click on search and voila! So, I typed in art. Ads sites! Scroll down for the juice! I clicked on visual/spatial learning and read about myself and how to work with this MI. Such as, study habits, usin...