Key Component C --Across the Curriculum:
A successful adolescent literacy initiative supports reading and writing across content areas.The following are promising practices related to Key Component C.
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To effectively support content-area literacy, a teacher must understand two key points: 1) The literacy demands presented by each content area vary, and 2) Reading and writing are valuable ways to develop content area understanding. To support adolescent literacy at the optimal level, content-area teachers must understand the reading and writing demands for someone studying their discipline. These include vocabulary development, understanding text structures, recognizing and analyzing discipline-specific discourse features, and knowing how to teach these in ways that adolescents can use them to learn. Then teachers must skillfully weave the practices described in Key Component B into their content area teaching, in ways that support discipline-based understanding.
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