Developing Cross-Curricular Instruction

Reading/Literacy specialists need to be able to plan, design, implement, and evaluate cross-curricular instruction to meet the content-specific literacy needs of secondary students. The instructional strategies for developing reading and writing across content areas must be responsive to the diversity of students.

There are many research-based instructional strategies that support reading and writing in the content areas. Use the identified standard:
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.7 – Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot and skill and plan a cross-curricular lesson that supports reading and writing for the students in your field experience classroom.

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Include the following:

A summary of the lesson, identifying the central focus.
Specific learning objectives aligned to state or national standards from another content area, other than English.
Multiple Means of Representation: Appropriate instructional strategies to differentiate instruction for diverse students across the content area.

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Multiple Means of Engagement: How the relationship between reading, writing, and language in the development of literacy skills is addressed and how the lesson encourages students to understand, question, and analyze standards-based content.
Multiple Means of Expression: A developmentally appropriate assessment that aligns to the content area standards and measures the learning objectives.
Write a 250-500 word reflection on your experience explaining why you chose these instructional strategies and how you modified them to meet the needs of students or the content area. Explain how they are effective practices that support student learning and growth in reading and writing at all skill levels in the chosen content area. Describe how the chosen materials address cultural responsiveness and positively affect students’ knowledge, beliefs, and engagements with diversity.

Include 2-3 scholarly resources to support your instructional strategies as effective practices.

SAMPLE SOLUTION

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