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Welcome to our Content Area Literacy Wiki!

The Spring 2011 class of EMAT 642 welcomes you to our Be the Bear Content Area Literacy wiki! We invite you to read and learn from the best work we create during this course. We include comprehension strategies that may be used before, during, or, after students in middle and high school content area courses read their assigned texts.

Because we understand that the vocabulary of any academic discipline should be taught within the context of concept development, we have included our best suggestions for developing vocabulary and concepts in content area classrooms.

Next, we include our favorite suggestions for teaching study strategies. We agree with Vacca (2011, //Content Area Reading//) that content area writing fosters learning by helping students to explore, clarify, and think deeply about the ideas and concepts they encounter in reading; therefore, we include in this wiki our best suggestions for writing across the curriculum activities.

Finally, we include our own WebQuests as examples of an instructional way for engaging learners on the Internet.

We trust this showcase of our semester's work may be used as an instructional resource for grades six through twelve.