Content Area Reading
for English Language Learners

Jill Kerper Mora, Ed.D.
San Diego State University

7/27/98

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Table of Contents

Content Area Reading

Skills for Understanding the Content Areas

Reading Instruction in the Content Areas

Procedures in Content Area Reading for ELL’s

The Informal Reading Inventory

Independent Reading Level

Instructional Reading Level

Frustration Reading Level

Determining Reading Potential

Identify Patterns of Exposition in
Content-area Text

Patterns in Social Studies

Patterns in Science

Patterns in Mathematics

Patterns in Literature

Art, Music and Drama

Match Readers’ Levels to the Text

Paraphrasing Text for ELL Students

Steps 1-3 in Paraphrasing

Steps 4-6 in Paraphrasing

Extend Critical Thinking

Critical Thinking: Bloom's Taxonomy

Author: Jill Kerper Mora
Copyright 1998

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