Content Area Learning

In class these past few weeks we have learned about four different topics. The topics of that we have learned so far are content area literacy, choosing appropriate texts, knowledge transformation, and learner development.

Content area literacy is when teachers use different strategies of teaching different subjects like using one way to teach social studies and complete opposite in writing. I do think that using different strategies to teach different content is necessary, but a teacher cannot just pick a random, different strategies to teach different subjects he or she has to make sure the strategy is appropriate for the content. Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey (2015) wrote, “Without an understanding of what the text has to offer, who will be reading it, and what the task will be, teachers can be left wondering why a lesson did not work” (p.525). Within this one statement Fisher and Frey put out that if teachers do not use the right strategy for

Lately we have been told to pick the standard first, well in this case the text, then we must aligned the selected text with the task. However, normally I do this backwards I select the task then find a text, but I am coming to realize that I am do it wrong. “The text has to fit with the content standards being taught provide accurate information, and be interesting,” wrote Fisher and Frey (2015, p.528). They make a great point by a teacher must always pick the standard and then find the appropriate text. A con to this strategy is some teachers are doing this backwards by picking the book then the standard instead of the other way around. Choosing the appropriate texts is more than matching it to the standard the teacher must make sure it is interesting, grade level in however he or she is planning on using it, and the best text for the