Carol Lee and Anika Spratley are educators who are interested in the struggle of adolescent readers, and have written a report on the struggle of such readers in the content areas. Articles by these authors/educators are available on AdLit.org. They describe the challenges and benefits of teaching literacy in the various content areas, and the different types of reading and reading purposes involved. The article on reading in literature also points out that there are varying types of reading in even a "reading" class and the skills/prior knowledge needed for a reader of literature to be successful. I thought that these articles were helpful in understanding that each discipline has its own set of strategies and reading knowledge that a student must acquire/use for this type of reading. These articles truly demonstrate why reading must be taught in each subject area- not even the best reading teacher could teach such a wealth of information alone!
Content Area Literacy: Literature
Content Area Literacy: Mathematics
Content Area Literacy: History
For more information from Lee and Spratley read their entire report, Reading in the Disciplines: The Challenges of Adolescent Literacy.
Dr. Carol Lee's profile from Northwestern
Dr. Anika Spratley's profile from Johns Hopkins
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