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Welcome to our Content Area Literacy Wiki!
The Summer 2013 online class of EMAT 642 welcomes you to our Content Literacy wiki! We share some of the best work we create during this course. We have included **comprehension strategies** that may assist students in middle and high school content area courses to better understand their assigned texts.

Because we know that the **vocabulary** of any academic discipline should be taught within the context of concept development, we have included our recommended suggestions for developing vocabulary and concepts in content area classrooms.

Next, we include some of our favorite suggestions for teaching **study strategies**.

We include former students' **WebQuests** as examples of an instructional way for engaging learners on the Internet.

FInally, 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; therefore, we include in this wiki our favorite suggestions for **writing across the curriculum** activities.

We trust this showcase of our semester's work may be used as an instructional resource for grades six through twelve.