Digital Literacy

Digital Literacy is a critical component in preparing students for college and career readiness. Below are several resources that address this topic:

Resources for Teaching Reading and Writing in History Courses

According to the College and Career Readiness Standards students are expected to employ a range of subject-specific reading and writing techniques in their courses. As such, it is imperative that teacher candidates learn to provide instruction that meets this challenge. The English Language Arts Faculty Collaborative has developed two papers that inform teacher candidates and those that teach them of the best practices in teaching skills necessary for students to be successful readers and writers of history.

Writing Like an Historian
Comprehending History Texts

Disciplinary Literacy

Analysis of Expert Readers in Three Disciplines: History, Mathematics, and Chemistry

A Time for Deeper Learning: Preparing Students for a Changing World

Assessing Deeper Learning

Content Area Literacy Conference Proceedings - Teachers College, Columbia University

Reading Next: A Vision for Action and Research in Middle and High School Literacy

Writing Next: Effective Strategies to Improve Writing of Adolescents in Middle and High Schools

Writing to Read: Evidence for How Writing Can Improve Reading

Results that Matter: 21st Century Skills and High School Reform

Literacy Instruction in the Content Areas: Getting to the Core of Middle and High School Improvement

Science, Language, and Literacy

Resources on Writing Instruction

Resources for Teaching Text Comprehension

The following are power point presentations on two evidence-based strategies for helping students comprehend texts: Anticipation-Reaction Guide and Question-Answer Relationships (QAR). Teacher educators may use these power points when introducing these concepts to secondary preservice teachers.

Anticipation-Reaction Guide
Question-Answer Relationships (QAR)

Policy Briefs on Adolescent Literacy and College & Career Readiness

These policy briefs give teacher educators an outline of the crisis in adolescent literacy and what secondary teachers should know and be able to do in order to prepare students for college and careers.

How Prepared are Students for College-Level Reading? Applying a Lexile^®-Based Approach

How Prepared are Subgroups of Texas Students for College-Level Reading: Applying a Lexile^®-Based Approach

The Federal Role in Confronting the Crisis in Adolescent Literacy

Adolescent Literacy Fact Sheet

Teaching for a New World

Call for Action: Transforming Teaching and Learning to Prepare High School Students for College and Careers<

The Linked Learning Approach: Building Capacity of Teachers to Prepare Students for College and Careers

Saving Now & Saving Later: How High School Reform Can Reduce the Nation's Wasted Remediation Dollars

Resources for Introducing the New ELAR Standards and CCRS to Preservice Teachers

The following is a presentation of a brief overview of the new ELAR standards. The presentation consists of an overview of the ELAR TEKS, the CCRS, and the ELPS. Particular attention is paid to how to navigate through the TEKS vertical alignment document. Additional materials are available on the official ELAR TEKS website.

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An overview of the College and Career Readiness Standards has been developed to help faculty introduce the CCRS to their students. The overview covers the background and the components of the CCRS.

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