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Help students to create visual word-images to express ideas, details, and  concepts they have read.
https://www.readinga-z.com/comprehension/reading-graphic-organizers/

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A word wall is a collection of words which are displayed in large visible letters on a wall, bulletin board, or other display surface in a classroom. The word wall is designed to be an interactive tool to use during writing and reading.
http://www.readingrockets.org/strategies/word_walls

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An admit slip is a student's entry ticket into class. It is filled out before the class begins or during the first few minutes of class. Students are allowed to exit the classroom when they submit an exit slip to the teacher.
http://www.ride.ri.gov/Portals/0/Uploads/Documents/Instruction-and-Assessment-World-Class-Standards/Transition/EIA-CCSS/ScarpelliD-Admit_and_Exit_Slip_Toolbox.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05osP9EWXm8

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Exit Slips are written responses to questions the teacher poses at the end of a lesson or a class to assess student understanding of key concepts.
http://www.readingrockets.org/strategies/exit_slips

http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/admit_slips09.pdf

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One of the simplest, briefest, yet most powerful strategy in your reading toolkit is the short minute or two when pairs of students turn and talk about a question or issue before them.
http://www.theteachertoolkit.com/index.php/tool/turn-and-talk

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Anticipation guides are one of the best ways to assess students' prior knowledge. As an added advantage, such activities give students clues about what's coming next and that helps them set a purpose for learning, an important aspect of motivation.
http://www.readingrockets.org/strategies/anticipation_guide

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Lesson plans for content area teachers
ReadWriteThink Literacy in Content Area resources

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After a reading passage the student or group of students get together and try and find the main idea of the reading. Once this has been found they must put it into a tweet which is composed of 140 characters. This challenges the students vocabulary and writing skills as they must squeeze the main idea of the passage into this small amount of space.

https://prezi.com/e9gbojbwayi1/tweet-the-text/

https://prezi.com/-mk7kmzwv1dm/tweet-the-text/

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The Two-Column Note-Taking strategy encourages students to identify important information in a lecture, film, or reading and to then respond to this material.
https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/teaching-strategies/two-column-note-taking

https://www.landmarkoutreach.org/strategies/the-two-column-method-of-note-taking/

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Prior knowledge is the strongest determiner of understanding. New knowledge can only be built upon already existing knowledge. Find out what kids already know and move your lessons from there. If they do not have prior knowledge take the time to use other resources to build a foundation base of knowledge students can connection with.

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Prior knowledge is the strongest determiner of understanding. New knowledge can only be built upon already existing knowledge. Find out what kids already know and move your lessons from there. If they do not have prior knowledge take the time to use other resources to build a foundation base of knowledge students can connection with.

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Reading with a partner involves two students sitting together taking turns reading aloud. The readers stop and discuss what they have read and clarify the ideas before moving on.
https://education.ky.gov/educational/rta/documents/rtatalkpartners.pdf

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The 5 C's for Planning Vocabulary Instruction.

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The 5 C's for Planning Vocabulary Instruction.

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http://www.ncte.org/library/NCTEFiles/Resources/Journals/VM/0201-sep2012/VM0201Why.pdf

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K-W-H-L: What do you know? What do I want to know? How will I find out? What I Learned.

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K-W-H-L: What do you know? What do I want to know? How will I find out? What I Learned.

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This is a good strategy to use before beginning a unit and after you have browsed through the text. The L-W-H-L Chart guides students through the process.
1.http://www.wirticenter.com/strategiesbank/documents/Reading%20Informational%20Texts%20K-5/RI.KID%20K-W-H-L%20Chart.pdf

2. https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/teaching-strategies/k-w-l-charts

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Activating Background Knowledge into the flow of your lessons- Most common Strategies...

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Activating Background Knowledge into the flow of your lessons- Most common Strategies...

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Quickwrites, KWL charts, Checklists, sentence and paragraph frames.

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Literacy & Learning: Reading in the Content Areas 

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Literacy & Learning: Reading in the Content Areas 

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The focus of this handbook is to develop instructional resource materials that will help classroom teachers integrate literacy instruction into content teaching in grades 5 through 8.
http://www.st.cr.k12.ia.us/reading/calliteracylearningstrategiestchrguide.pdf

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You Can't Learn Much from Books You Can't Read 

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You Can't Learn Much from Books You Can't Read 

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This article provides strategies to try if the reading levels of textbooks are beyond student's abilities.
http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/nov02/vol60/num03/You-Can't-Learn-Much-from-Books-You-Can't-Read.aspx

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Focus on meta-cognition. Use think-aloud techniques to show students new thinking strategies you want them to acquire. Help students foster the ability to think; the core of strong reading. Make the problem-solving process that good readers use visible to struggling students.

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This tool gives examples of how to incorporate writing daily, weekly, and monthly into the curriculum.

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Reflect on what you are already doing in your classroom and curriculum. Identify the strong literacy activities you already do and then expand or supplement them. You probably have some great comprehension and literacy strategies and activities embedded in your practice that just need to be expanded upon.

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Instructional Strategies That Facilitate Learning Across Content Areas/Lesson Plans Included:

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Instructional Strategies That Facilitate Learning Across Content Areas/Lesson Plans Included:

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www.sde.ct.gov
(TONS of good lesson plans to incorporate literacy into the content areas)

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Strategies for Reading Textbooks to Learn Information 

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Strategies for Reading Textbooks to Learn Information 

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Visual for content area teachers to see how students' awareness of text structure, language processes and questioning techniques allow students to learn from their reading. (Robb, 2003, p. 302)

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These give students a place to write down their thoughts & questions, come to conclusions, connect with text, and evaluate their thinking.

Inquiry Notebooks-
A place to write ideas as they pop into your mind.

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www.readingrockets.org
Content area literacy ideas

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Start small. Pick a couple of strategies, and practice these strategies until your students can use these strategies on their own.

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What is CORI?                      CORI stands for Concept-Oriented Reading Instruction. It is designed to teach children reading comprehension through the integration of science and reading. Its primary aim is to increase the reading comprehension of students in grades 3 to 5 by increasing their reading engagement.

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What is CORI?                      CORI stands for Concept-Oriented Reading Instruction. It is designed to teach children reading comprehension through the integration of science and reading. Its primary aim is to increase the reading comprehension of students in grades 3 to 5 by increasing their reading engagement.

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http://www.readingrockets.org/article/concept-oriented-reading-instruction-cori

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This is a video that visually explains the process of this strategy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G07BhOwLLHM

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Expect students to read and write in every class.

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Expect students to read and write in every class.

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For more lessons that build literacy skills in content areas, "Classroom Strategies for Interactive Learning," by Doug Buehl 

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For more lessons that build literacy skills in content areas, "Classroom Strategies for Interactive Learning," by Doug Buehl 

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Use current reading materials like newspaper and magazine articles to support your subject matter. Keep your eyes out for recent news stories that connect to your curriculum and share this information with your students and encourage them to share any examples they may encounter through social media.  How does what you are teaching connect and relate to the world your students understand. 

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Use current reading materials like newspaper and magazine articles to support your subject matter. Keep your eyes out for recent news stories that connect to your curriculum and share this information with your students and encourage them to share any examples they may encounter through social media.  How does what you are teaching connect and relate to the world your students understand. 

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Encourage parents to read to their children everyday and talk about what they are reading together to promote a joy of reading and literacy achievement.
Teach them a few strategies to reinforce at home -- the same ones being reinforced across the curriculum.