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I think it is easy in science to incorporate talking and writing because we do so many labs where they have to collaborate and communicate with each other. They also have to write lab conclusions to incorporate what they learned. When presenting projects, they are given an opportunity to practice public speaking skills.

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We all have the capacity to learn, but some of us have more difficulties than others. Our job as counselors is help our students understand the barriers to their abilities.  Some of those issues are environmental, and we try to show kids/students how to succeed using the resources presented to them.

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Teaching literacy in math is extremely important!
Gone are the days of a quiz with simply solving problems! Math questions involve more problem solving skills and critical thinking skills. There is a tremendous amount of application in the SOLs. For our SGM data, kids are asked to solve a problem, but the "process goal" is actually communication. Teaching kids how to write about math and explain steps using correct terminology is very challenging so we must model and use guiding questions to help this process.

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D. Gilfillan:    I really try to model a love of literacy, whether it is technology literacy, reading literacy, writing, etc.  I also actively work to promote the purpose of the literacy - demonstrating through various means and explanations how this is a meaningful skill that will directly be used in life (writing a letter to a congressman, posting a blog page, creating something to advertise on Kickstarter and writing a business plan so that others will invest, creating advertisements, etc.)

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D. Gilfillan:    I really try to model a love of literacy, whether it is technology literacy, reading literacy, writing, etc.  I also actively work to promote the purpose of the literacy - demonstrating through various means and explanations how this is a meaningful skill that will directly be used in life (writing a letter to a congressman, posting a blog page, creating something to advertise on Kickstarter and writing a business plan so that others will invest, creating advertisements, etc.)

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Reading is a life skill that everyone needs to master, no matter what lies ahead in your future. Whether you choose to go in to finance, acting, law, construction, etc, reading is a skill that you will use everyday. There are not many other content areas that have that kind of significance across the board. This means that no matter how important your content is, students may never need it quite as badly as literacy. Which is why we as teachers should implement reading strategies within our content curriculum. My students read for research when doing Artist Biography assignments in their sketchbooks. They write reflections after each project to tell me when they learned and how they felt about their results. They read short excerpts about art history and participate in art criticism of their own work as well as their peers work.

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Prokopis- Part of literacy is  understanding what one is reading or analyzing. This is why it is important for all classes to focus on literacy and comprehension. Not only does this add practice to a student's life, but it shows that reading is not just something you do in an English class; it is a skill needed across the board. In class, I like to pepper in articles that interest the students ( based on a student survey given on the first day of school) and just discuss what they are reading. I do not add questions for them to answer because a lot of times this drains the fun out of reading. It can also cause a negative perception of reading because students are worried about the grade they are going to get instead of what they are reading, so too much questioning could have an adverse effect. I assess understanding through class discussion. I feel like adding assignments like this in-between reading passages paired with questions and assignments helps balance student experience with reading.  

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Prokopis- Part of literacy is  understanding what one is reading or analyzing. This is why it is important for all classes to focus on literacy and comprehension. Not only does this add practice to a student's life, but it shows that reading is not just something you do in an English class; it is a skill needed across the board. In class, I like to pepper in articles that interest the students ( based on a student survey given on the first day of school) and just discuss what they are reading. I do not add questions for them to answer because a lot of times this drains the fun out of reading. It can also cause a negative perception of reading because students are worried about the grade they are going to get instead of what they are reading, so too much questioning could have an adverse effect. I assess understanding through class discussion. I feel like adding assignments like this in-between reading passages paired with questions and assignments helps balance student experience with reading.  

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I love this article. So often early in my naive stage of teaching, I often thought learning literacy was only a skill taught in the English or Reading classroom. Now, I see the value in it. I love having my students read something, complete a task based off of their reading and then present it to a peer. The light that comes to their faces from understanding is one of my favorite things as a teacher. Being an elective teacher, students choose which class to take and for the most part really love to read, write and talk about the things that we learn.

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Literacy should be used in every classroom no matter what the subject. I just starting having my students come in each day and write a daily journal entry when we are in the health classroom. It is a good way to get them to slow down and reflect for a few minutes in the beginning of each block. They are expressing whatever comes to them and I am checking for basic grammar to be used. I also plan on doing many group projects where they will have to communicate with their group and then be able to present the info to the class. There will many chances for them to research and write about different topics we will be covering in health.

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I plan on having a 1-2 minute check in with my students, where they ask their neighbor what they did over the weekend, or even the night before. This will help them work on communication skills. The students already earlier wrote me a letter about themselves. Election year is here and i will be doing another debate topic with them in November, have them write out what they believe on a certain topic and debate with someone. This allows them to research about their position and understand it better and get it across to their peers.

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If you are not able to comprehend. you do not understand.  Regurgitating text or simply saying the expected words does not equate with comprehension of the material.  Many are blindsided by this.  The incorporation of strategies and skills that promote the understanding of material fosters acquisition of each department's goals.....

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We should always do all we can to incorporate all aspects of functional literacy in our classrooms.  Between the class discussions that are powerful in history as students go through the same discovery process, using the Class discussion function of Schoology to create some incredible BLOG-like discussions, to the exploration of primary sources:  the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, letters and court cases to propaganda posters and political cartoons.
The functions and uses are limitless as each unit possesses many aspects of literacy that can be explored from almost any angle.
As we all know, history is most definitely the most interesting, applicable, and simply the best way to deliver functional literacy!

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Literacy covers more than just teaching someone to read and write. Literacy is about being able to communicate effectively and interpret communication effectively. My undergrad roommates were all engineers, so the focus of our work was very different. However, my roommate Megan was promoted at her company (mechanical/biomedical engineering) because she was the only one on her team that could put together the proposals they needed to send to surgeons and hospitals. My content is a focus in literacy by nature, but if I were teaching another subject, I would try to think of ways that my students could practice communicating their findings/assumptions/hypotheses/work etc in both written and oral formats. Along with that, I would have them practice reading and listening to the findings/assumptions/hypotheses/work etc of others. To be able to develop or complete a task regardless of how technical is only as successful as the spread of that information can be.

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We are soon beginning the the book Freak the Mighty in 6th grade English classes and will pair each chapter of the book with some type of anticipation or post-reading activity. Many of our activities allow students to make personal connections to the story by writing about topics straight from the novel. We then explore how the characters handled the situations as compared the students' own personal experiences. This allows students to learn from the book lessons which cannot be taught with a teacher presentation and set of notes.