Instructional Strategies for Literacy Integration Matrix

Instructional Strategies for Literacy Integration Matrix
Grade: 9
Content Area: History
Part 1: Matrix
Select three state standards for your content area and align each content standard with a different literacy standard. Based on the standards chosen, create a learning objective and select an instructional strategy. Write a rationale for how the strategy for each standard promotes a balanced literacy curriculum.
State Standard by Content Area

Literacy State Standard to Integrate into Another Content Area
Use a different literacy standard for each content standard.

Standards-based Learning Objective
Aligned to content standards

Instructional Strategy to Integrate Literacy

Resources
Provide links to websites, PDFs, and any other documents used or referenced for strategy

Rationale
How the strategy will promote balanced literacy curriculum

State Content Standard 1:
H1: Understanding historical chronology

HI.9 designing questions about events to assess the importance of their changes.

The ability to formulate questions that reflect a particular event thus enhancing the classroom discussion.

The 4Ws worksheet.

4Ws

The 4ws worksheet enables students to consider all the factors of a concept, thus enhancing learning.

State Content Standard 2:
H2: Understanding the main factors that have contributed to changes on major events in the past.

Define and analyze the changes brought about by technological advancements.

The ability to identify changes brought by technology

Using a Venn diagram to compare the changes created by technology

Venn diagram.

A Venn diagram enables the learnlearner to note major differences in a concept, thus enhancing learning.

State Content Standard 3:
H3: Understanding the importance of political reforms in society

Note and analyze the major political reforms in history

The ability to note and understand various political reforms

Using a Venn diagram to understand the changes caused by political reforms.

Venn diagram

A Venn diagram facilitates critical thinking, thus enabling the student to understand the concept better.

Part 2: Summary and Scholarly Resources
The use of different instructional strategies in the classroom environment plays a major role in enhancing the literacy curriculum. Such enhances the learning capacities of each student, thus enabling them to grasp the content easily. Students in a learning environment have different learning capabilities and weaknesses. Such makes it challenging for the educator to use a specific instructional strategy in teaching such students. The instructional strategy that works best with one student might not be effective for use in teaching another student (Greenleaf, Litman & Marple, 2018). In such a case, the teacher ought to identify the best instructional strategy for each student, whichinstructional strategy that works best for each student and this explains the importance of using different instructi...