Content Area Literacy

This drawing represents the necessary agreement between student literary proficiency level, level of text readability, and level of literacy- related demands upon the student when promoting literacy in a classroom. To build a successful literary classroom, there must be balance between the three.

 

The drawing also shows some of the tools a teacher has at their disposal when trying to assess their classroom to create this balance. For example, the one-one-one assessments are grouped together as 16th notes and are placed first on the staff because they would likely be used early on in the students school life and would be available records for future teachers to use. The cloze reading quarter note is placed on the line between text readability and student literary proficiency because it is testing both in relation to the other simultaneously. Lastly, research has shown that using formulas is the best way to assess text readability level, so I grouped two examples together as eight notes.

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