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  • Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center Hotel 1551 Thoreau Drive North Schaumburg, IL, 60173 United States (map)

How to Embed the Seven Essential Literacy Skills into Your Content Area

All learning is based on the mastery of essential literary skills, and in this interactive presentation, educators will discover tools they need to embed literacy into all subjects. Comprehension is based on skill-building strategies that encourage purpose and engagement; as a result, educators can effectively teach those literacy skills to support developing students as they learn to read, write, and think critically. In this presentation, educators will discover how to: expand their teaching methods to include literacy skills, introduce literacy into daily lesson planning, embed reading comprehension into any subject area, and scaffold instruction using literacy strategies to boost subject-area comprehension. (Based on Peg’s book, Clearing the Path for Developing Learners: Essential Literacy Skills to Support Achievement in Every Content Area.)

Here are the reproducibles:

Lesson Plan for Summary

Annotation Sentence Starters

“56% of College Students Have Used AI on Assignments and Exams”

“There Will Come Soft Rains”

Write a Summary Worksheet

5Ws and H for Short Stories

Lesson Plan for Inference

“The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street

“The Scarlatti Tilt” 

It’s hard to live in a studio apartment in San Jose with a man who’s  learning  to  play  the  violin.’  That’s  what  she told  the police when she handed them the empty revolver.

My Evidence Worksheet

What’s the Subtext?

“How AI could power the climate breakthrough the world needs”

“How Students Use AI vs. How Teachers Think They Use It, In Charts”

Exploring Cause and Effect Chart

Causes, Effects, and Solutions Chart