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Teachers in Reynoldsburg City Schools located in Ohio work to implement literacy in ALL content areas. When you see reading, writing, speaking and/or listening in a science or social studies classroom, that is REYNcontentlit!

The ability to use reading and writing for the acquisition of new content in a given discipline. Such ability includes three principal cognitive components: general literacy skills, content-specific literacy skills (such as map reading in the social studies,) and prior knowledge of content." (McKenna & Robinson 1990)

Using reading and writing to teach science, social studies and math.

The integration of reading, writing and content-area instruction

The use reading and writing to learn the subject matter in a discipline