Instructional challenge #1- How

5 recommendations for improving support for literacy growth in the content areas (disciplines)

• More explicit instruction and guided practice in the use of reading comprehension strategies

• Increasing the amount of open, sustained discussion of content and ideas from text

• Maintaining high standards for the level of conversation, questions, vocabulary that are used in discussions and in assignments

• Adopting instructional methods that increase student engagement with text and motivation for reading

• More powerful teaching of content and use of methods that allow all to learn critical content