Welcome to Content Crosswalk


Do you need literacy directions? Do you feel like you don't know where to go when teaching literacy, blending it with your instruction, or can't get your kid to read. Then this is the blog for you! Here at Content Crosswalk: Where Literacy Gets the Write Of Way we will discuss, present articles, ideas, and videos all about content area literacy. No matter what direction or content you teach you will find your way using Content Crosswalk. 

Resources, Organizers, and Exemplars

Looking for templates or examples to use in your classroom or home...then this is the place for you. Here you can view resources, organizers, and exemplars of literacy in the content area. Cross over and see what others are using in the classrooms or even your homes.

Integrating Magnet Theme Exemplars
This link will provide templates and exemplars of teachers from Hartford Magnet Trinity College Academy in Hartford Connecticut. The teachers implemented the Arts, Science, and Early College Model in the Units displayed in the link.

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B31OgCHP4BRUd3MwSEJneVRfOXc&usp=sharing

Teaching and Thinking in the Common Core
This link showcases Educational Consultant Robin Fogarty work on the Common Core State Standards skills and strategies. During an ASCD conference,  Dr. Fogarty demonstrated how to participants could teach thinking skills within the Common Core for all content areas.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B31OgCHP4BRUckljMmFRRWxrbkk/edit?usp=sharing

Reference

Fogarty, Robin. “Teaching Thinking Skills in The Common Core State Standards.” PDF presentation. ASCD Conference, Boston, MA. 6 Dec 2013. <https://drive.google.com/file/
d/0B31OgCHP4BRUckljMmFRRWxrbkk/edit?usp=sharing>





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