Edyth E. Young, Ph.D., NCREL program director/research, Center for Literacy outlines "Content Literacy."
Young:
Well, content literacy, that's one of my favorites because content literacy is where students actually leave their content areas, having mastered whatever subject that is. They are capable of reading, speaking, and communicating within any particular content area. Just like we have computer literacy, workplace literacy with computer literacy understanding the ends of that --ins and outs of using a computer.
Well, it is especially important to have content literacy, especially as we move through the grades in secondary schools when we're getting more into the content students have to be able to master and understand and speak and communicate that particular given content.