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The Strategic Learning Center provides a multi-tiered, five level support model, called the Content Literacy Continuum (CLC.) Because this framework offers an integrated set of services and interventions that all work together, CLC is an effective Response to Intervention (RTI) model.
What is the Content Literacy Continuum?
The Content Literacy Continuum is a framework of supports at five levels of increasing intensity that meet the varying needs of high, average and low achievers. Levels One and Two are for all students, while levels Three, Four and Five address the needs of those students who struggle with learning.
What does Content Literacy mean?
We refer to content as the information and concepts that teachers have identified as critical knowledge for students to learn.
Content literacy is generally defined as using skills and strategies (particularly reading and writing) for the acquisition of new content in a given discipline.
To be successful in middle school and high school, students need to have the foundational language and concepts, reading, writing, and study skills necessary to effectively comprehend, retain, and react to appropriate instructional materials (e.g., textbook chapters, novels, poetry, lab directions, etc.) in a given subject area at a given grade level or ability level.
Content literacy means that students not only can master the content, but also can manipulate and generalize that content to other learning situations.
Each of the five levels of the Content Literacy Continuum meets the needs of students in a different way. Levels 1 and 2 address the needs of all students while levels 3, 4 and 5 address the needs of students who struggle with learning.