Templates for Exploring Social Studies with Dr. Janet Allen "Beating the Odds with Effective Tools for Content Literacy" offers over forty strategies for teaching, including wordstorming to anticipate content, facts and questions ladder, knowledge charts, and word sorts.
Literacy Strategies from Literacy and Learning: Reading in the Content Areas
This website, a collaboration between Southeastern Louisiana University and Louisiana Public Broadcasting, offers strategies for teachers to use with students in grades five through eight, including journaling, directed reading-thinking activity, analogical guide, feature analysis and over twenty others.
Content Area Literacy
This website, produced by Schools of California Online Resources for Education, offers over thirty strategies for teaching students to read expository text.
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National Archives has lesson plans and teaching activities on using digital images and other primary sources to help effectively teach content literacy.
Literacy Matters has web pages on reading and writing in the content areas, how to read a textbook, using biographies to teach literacy skills, and links to other resources.