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= The Summer 2013 class of EMAT 642 welcomes you to our Bears Content Area Literacy wiki! = ==== We invite you to read and learn from the best work we create during this course. We have included **comprehension strategies** that may be used **before, during,** or **after (post reading)** students in middle and high school content area courses read their assigned texts. ====

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

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

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 best 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 four through twelve.