What is content area literacy?
Content area literacy is the development of the ability to read, write, and comprehend information in core content areas.
It focuses on the listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills and thinking processes that help students learn from subject matter-specific texts. Evidence-based strategies such as pre-reading, activating prior knowledge, questioning, concept mapping, making inferences, re-reading, and summarizing that are often used inteaching English Language Arts can also be applied effectively across the content areas.