Understanding Content Area Literacy

The very beginning of our course was devoted to the greater idea of content area literacy in the framework of which the necessity to read and write in every academic field were stressed. It was interesting to me to realize how literacy does not only occur in language arts but also in other subjects such as math, science, and history. This brought my thoughts to imagine that literacy in content areas must be a component of the instructional process in all the classrooms. The fact that, the content area teachers have the task to not only educate the students about the subject material but also assist in the reinforcement of their literacy skills was an eyes-opener. I especially liked the discussions on how differentiated instruction would enable provision of needs of diverse learners in the classroom.             Personally, one of the points that impressed me was the recommendation or rather the need to identify the literacy defi...