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Welcome to our Content Area Literacy Wiki!

The Fall 2012 class of EMAT 642 welcomes you to our Go Bears Content Literacy wiki! We invite you to read and learn from the best work we create during this course. We have reviewed **comprehension strategies** that may be used before, during, or after students in middle and high school content area courses read their assigned texts.

We understand that the **vocabulary** of any academic discipline should be taught within the context of concept development. We have discussed our favorite suggestions for teaching **study strategies**.

We believe that content area writing fosters learning by helping students to explore, clarify, and think deeply about the ideas and concepts they encounter in reading. Finally, we have included our own **WebQuests** as examples of an instructional way for engaging learners on the Internet.

We trust these webquests may be used as instructional resources for grades six through twelve.