English Language Arts

Six Instructional Shifts

Focus on Shift 2:

Literacy Across All Content Areas

S I X I N S T R U C T I O N A L S H I F T S E L A A N D L I T E R A C Y

Shift 1: Balance of literature and informational text

Shift 2: Literacy across all content areas (6-12)

Shift 3: Staircase of complexity

Shift 4: Question and Answers: text-dependent

Shift 5: Writing to inform or argue using evidences

Shift 6: Academic Vocabulary

SHIFT 2KNOWLEDGE IN THE DISCIPLINES

Literacy standards (6-12) are predicated on

teachers in ELA, social studies, science and

technical subjects using their content area

expertise to help students meet the particular

challenges of reading, writing, speaking, listening

and language in their respective fields.

GOALS OF SHIFT 2

•All content area teachers teach literacy in their discipline.

(school-wide content area literacy)

•Students build content knowledge through reading texts and writing about what they read.

•All content area teachers teach discipline-specific reading and writing strategies vs. a generic list

of strategies.

•Students read and write for multiple audiences and purposes across disciplines using text as a

source of evidence.

•Students apply literacy skills to content area texts; including primary and secondary documents.

VIDEO SUPPORT (3:50)

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