Week 1

Welcome to our Content-Area Reading Strategy Book-Study. This week we ask you to introduce yourself to the cohort (include where and what you teach and what grade level) and respond to this week’s prompt by the end of the weekend. In addition, please return to this page sometime before next Thursday and reply to at least one other participants’ comment.

Read

• Your grade level and content area’s ELA CCSS for Reading.
• History/Social Studies:http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/RH/introduction
• Science & Technical Subjects: http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/RST/introduction
• Text and Lessons for Content Area Reading pp. 1-32

Prompt: Please begin by introducing yourself to the cohort (include where and what you teacher and what grade level), then respond to the following prompt: After the reviewing the ELA Reading CCSS for your content are and grade-level band, which standard do you think will be easiest for you to address in your classroom? Which will be most challenging? Why? After reading the introductory chapters to Text and Lessons, how do you imagine this book and its strategies will help you support reading in your classroom?