2. Goals:
• Identify the role of reading in content are learning.
• Determine the role of the teacher in content area
reading and learning.
•Understand the role of the text in content area learning.
• Examine the various types of text structures common to
expository text.
•Learn a variety of instructional strategies to enhance the
content area learning in social studies, science,
math, and the arts.
3. Content
Area
Learning
The role of reading
in content area
learning
The role of the
teacher in content
area learning
The role of the
text in content area
learning
Types of expository
texts
Social
Studies
Content
Instruction
Science
Content
Instruction
Math
Content
Instruction
Art & Music
Content
Instruction
4. The Role of the
Teacher in Context
Area Learning
5. Role of Teacher in Content Area Learning
1. What is your Self-Perception as a Teacher?
1. Do you view yourself as a dispenser of
information into an unfilled vessel or as a
facilitator to help students acquire knowledge?
(Darling-Hammond, 1997) suggests that our self-
perceptions should be aligned with the latter
perspective.
6. Role of Teacher in Content Area Learning
1. Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK)
1. Teachers must develop their understanding of
both the content and the pedagogyrequired to
teach that content (Kinach, 2002; Veal, van
Driel, & Hulshof, 2001)
2. Teachers with strong PCK are also strategic
teachers.
7. Guidelines in Planning for Reading
Students
• Students need to have a purpose for learning. This
purpose should be related to their concerns and
interests.
•Students need to be motivated to learn.
Involved, motivated students will learn more and
remember longer.
•Students learn most effectively when they have a
positive attitude.
•Students comprehend by relating their school
experiences to their life experiences.
8. Guidelines in Planning for Reading
Students
• Students need word recognition, comprehension, and
study skills through reading.
•Students learn in many ways. By offering a
variety of learning activities, you will be able to
meet the needs of your students.
•Students learn at different rates. Setting a time
limit can be counterproductive unless the purpose
is to measure the rate of learning.
•Students need to be active participants, for
learning is not a passive process.
9. Guidelines in Planning for Reading
Teachers
• Teachers must have a thorough understanding of the
content material they are teaching.
•Teachers must have a thorough knowledge of
the students they are teaching.
•Teachers need to plan activities that will encourage
the growth of all students.
•Teachers must have a thorough understanding
of the various methods designed to teach
reading and language through content area
subjects.
10. Guidelines in Planning for Reading
Teachers
• Teachers should make proper adjustments for word
recognition, comprehension, and study skills application
for effective teaching of reading in any content area.
•Teachers need to understand the practical
application of learning theory, asking themselves, for
example, How do children learn?
•Teachers should be well versed in assessment
and evaluated techniques.
•Teachers must remember that content are
reading and language strategies can be applied to
all subject areas.
11. Role of Teacher in Content Area Learning
Given the guidelines, the teacher’s job is to bridge
the gap between learning goals and actual learning.
We believe that classroom instruction, the
strategies that teachers implement to cause
learning to take place in their classrooms,
represents this bridge (e.g., Mogos, 2003)
13. Role of Text in Content Area Learning
1. It is important to examine an element crucial to
most content are instruction: the textbook.
2. The foundation of a content area reading
program is the knowledge that all of our
students will need to learn from a variety of
texts with a variety of organizational formats
(e.g., Kaplan & Grabe, 2002)
18. Social Studies
1. Reading in Social Studies
•Teaching Social Studies Vocabulary
•Comprehending Pictorial Data
•Cause and Effect
•Propaganda
•Comparison
•Sequencing
•Differentiating Fact from Opinion
•Conceptualizing Relationships
19. Social Studies
2. Teaching Social Studies
•Directed Reading Teaching Activity
3. Activities that Integrate Reading and
Social Studies
• The Nightly Cause-and-Effect Show
• Compare First, Vote Later
• Different Perspective
• Such a Deal!
20. Mathematics
1. Reading in Mathematics
• Mathematical Language
• Reading Tables, Graphs and Pictorial
Data
2. Activities that Integrate Reading and
Mathematics
• Student Tycoons
• Getting There Prepared and On Time
• Treasure Clues
• Our Community
21. Science
1. Reading in Science
• Scientific Language
2. Activities that Integrate Reading &
Science
• Mathematical Pairs
• Scrambled, But Not Eggs
• Meaning, Meaning
• Moon Landing
• Science Between Grades
• Domino Demons
22. Arts
1. Reading and the Arts
•Music
•Art
2. Activities that Integrate Reading,
Art and Music
• Socks Talk
• Singing Syllables
• Secret Word
• The Greatest Show on Earth
